[Effects of drug treatment on the surviral-time in patients with dementia].

Aim: The effect of polypharmacy on the surviral-time in patients with dementia has never been fully elucidated.

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted in a hospital in Aichi, Japan, by reviewing the medical charts and autopsy reports. Patients were hospitalized and neuropathologically diagnosed with dementia.

Factors influencing hospital admission among patients with autopsy-confirmed dementia.

Background: The symptoms of geriatric syndromes and the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), in addition to clinical conditions, are associated with hospital admission among dementia patients. However, the principal factors that necessitate hospital admission among dementia patients have not been fully elucidated.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the data in the medical and autopsy reports of patients who had been treated at a hospital in Toyohashi, Japan.