The DemWG study: reducing the risk of hospitalisation through a complex intervention for people with dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in German …

A Kratzer, J Scheel, K Wolf-Ostermann, A Schmidt… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Shared-housing arrangements (SHAs) are small, home-like care environments
in Germany. Residents are predominantly people with dementia. The risk for all-cause
hospitalisation is consistently higher for people with dementia compared with people without
dementia and there is currently no evidence-based intervention to reduce the risk of
hospitalisation. Thus, the DemWG study investigates whether a complex intervention is
effective in reducing hospitalisation (primary outcome), behavioural and psychological …

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A Kratzer, J Scheel, K Wolf-Ostermann, A Schmidt… - BMJ Open, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
ABSTRACT Introduction Shared-housing arrangements (SHAs) are small, home-like care
environments in Germany. Residents are predominantly people with dementia. The risk for
all-cause hospitalisation is consistently higher for people with dementia compared with
people without dementia and there is currently no evidence-based intervention to reduce the
risk of hospitalisation. Thus, the DemWG study investigates whether a complex intervention
is effective in reducing hospitalisation (primary outcome), behavioural and psychological …