The effects of duration of caregiving on institutionalization.

Purpose: Our objective in this analysis was to determine how the duration of caregiving interacts with key care demands (i.e., severity of problem behaviors) to influence the institutionalization of individuals suffering from dementia.

Predictors of nursing home placement in African Americans with dementia.

The objective of the present study was to identify predictors of institutionalization in African Americans who suffer from dementia. Data were derived from the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Evaluation (MADDE), which collected information on Alzheimer's patients and their family caregivers over a 3-year period. The baseline MADDE sample included 667 older African Americans suffering from dementia recruited from eight catchment areas in the United States.