Advanced Practice Clinician Care and End-of-life Outcomes for Community- and Nursing Home-dwelling Medicare Beneficiaries with Dementia

Date: 04/18/2023
Source: Advanced Practice Clinician Care and End-of-life Outcomes for Community- and Nursing Home-dwelling Medicare Beneficiaries with Dementia
Author(s): Hyesung Oh, Elizabeth M White, Ulrike Muench, Christopher Santostefano, Bishnu Thapa, Cyrus Kosar, Emily A Gadbois, Zainab Toteh Osakwe, Pedro Gozalo, and Momotazur Rahman

 

Older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) often face burdensome end-of-life care transfers. Advanced practice clinicians (APCs), which include nurse practitioners and physician assistants, increasingly provide primary care to this population. To fill current gaps in the literature, we measured the association between APC involvement in end-of-life care versus hospice utilization and hospitalization for older adults with ADRD.