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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2017.18.1.202

Trends Analysis of Characteristics in Patient with Dementia  

Park, Un-Je (Department of Medical Record, Daejeon Veterans Hospital)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.18, no.1, 2017 , pp. 202-209 More about this Journal
Abstract
South Korea is becoming an aging society, increasing the population with dementia. This study analyzed the characteristics of the trend of dementia patients by utilizing 12 years' worth of data from five V hospitals within metropolitan cities. The results show that there has been an 11.3 times increase in the total number of new dementia patients in these five hospitals from 410 in 2003 to 5,048 in 2014; and among them, the rate of increase was highest in P hospital with a 30.3 times increase. Conversely, there has been a 6-times increase in D hospital, illustrating a noticeable gap between these hospitals. Overall, these hospitals have shown an enormous increasing ratio. In an analysis according to age, it's been shown that those aged between 75 and 84 showed the highest prevalence, and most patients, approximately 93.5%, were 65 years or older, while 20.2% were 85 years or older, showing a high ratio of elderly among dementia patients. In an analysis by type of dementia, it's been shown that Alzheimer's was the most prevalent with 44.4%, followed by unspecified dementia with 33.3%, and vascular dementia with 20.4%. As evident by the outcome of the study, there's been a drastic increase in the number of dementia patients in the past 12 years; since the prevalence of dementia was shown to be higher with older age, it is expected that the number of dementia patients will rise further in these five hospitals, where there's a high ratio of elderly patients. More elaborate and continuous plans are necessary for the management of dementia patients following the growing number of dementia patients.
Keywords
Dementia; Hospitals; Prevalence; Trends; Characteristics; Patients;
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