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released: 24 Oct 2011 author: AIHW

The Hospital Dementia Services Project is an innovative mixed-methods study funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council to investigate how health and aged care system factors influence care outcomes for hospital patients with dementia. People with dementia have comparatively high rates of hospitalisation and longer hospital stays which has an impact on their physical and mental wellbeing. The project focuses on patients aged 50 or over who had an overnight stay in a public hospital in New South Wales during 2006-07. This publication describes the project's objectives and design features.

ISBN 978-1-74249-217-9; Cat. no. AGE 67; 16pp.; Internet Only

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Summary
      • Background
      • Objectives
      • Methods
      • Discussion
  • Body section
    • 1 Introduction
      • Objective
    • 2 Method
      • Underlying study design
      • Setting
      • Study populations
      • Ethical approval
      • Analytic methods and data sources
        • Aim 1: Describe hospital services and models
        • Aim 2: Measure/quantify the provision of aged care services across regions
        • Aim 3: Profile and compare hospital stays and post-hospital outcomes for people with and without dementia
        • Aim 4: Test for associations between system factors and patient and hospital outcomes.
    • 3 Discussion
  • End matter
    • References

Recommended citation

AIHW 2011. The Hospital Dementia Services Project: a study description. Cat. no. AGE 67. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 12 January 2013 <http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=10737420199>.