Deaths among older Alzheimer's patients surged 26% during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to New Hampshire and Massachusetts researchers.
"Thus, patients with ADRD experienced a 13.3% greater mortality risk than patients without ADRD from March through December 2020," the authors wrote. , the deaths of patients with Alzheimer's and related dementia increased by 33%, compared with 24% among those residents without Alzheimer's.
Among the Asian, Black, and Hispanic populations, deaths accelerated even faster than the overall ADRD population and a"similar pattern of elevated mortality risk was observed" among enrollees without ADRD.VIAGARA MAY BE PROMISING DRUG CANDIDATE IN TREATMENT OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, STUDY FINDS "We found that enrollees with ADRD were at higher risk of dying in 2020 compared with 2019, either directly of COVID-19 or because of premature death owing to disruptions in health care. These results hold both for patients with ADRD overall and for patients with ADRD residing in nursing homes," the researchers explained.
The study examined all causes of death, using data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the authors said it represents the"largest examination" of mortality trends among nursing home residents during the early phase of the pandemic. Because changes in health care delivery might disproportionately impact older adults with ADRD, the authors wrote that it is"not difficult to imagine how the combination of less effective outpatient care and lower inpatient admission rates led to higher mortality."
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