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Collaborative Care Best for Alzheimer's
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 There was no evidence that the collaborative team approach had any effect on cognition, activities of daily living, or rates of nursing-home placement for the Alzheimer's patients.
Given time, however, some of these results might also change.
"The sample is a little small and the period of observation a little brief to be able to detect differences in hospitalization, mortality or nursing-home placements," Kennedy said. "If it's in a larger sample size and extended over two to three years, you might start to see differences in the more dramatic outcomes."
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Callahan and his researchers now plan to look at the cost-effectiveness of the team approach and to see if such collaboration can delay the need for nursing-home care for Alzheimer's patients.
More information
Learn more at the Alzheimers Association (www.alz.org ).
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SOURCES: Christopher M. Callahan, M.D., director, Indiana University Center for Aging Research, Indianapolis; Gary J. Kennedy, M.D., director, geriatric psychiatry, Montefiore Medical Center, New York City; May 10, 2006, Journal of the American Medical Association
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