(HealthDay)—Rural Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer disease and related dementia (ADRD) spend more time in nursing homes, receive less home health care, and have shorter survival than their urban counterparts, according to a study published online Oct. 22 in JAMA Network Open.
Momotazur Rahman, Ph.D., from the Brown University School of Public Health in Providence, Rhode Island, and colleagues examined linked Medicare claims (2009 through 2016) with nursing home and home health assessment data from all U.S. counties. The authors sought to assess survival and trajectories of hospital, hospice, nursing home, and home health care use among rural and urban Medicare beneficiaries with ADRD…
