Older adults with schizophrenia have an increased risk for receiving a diagnosis of dementia compared with those without serious mental illness (SMI), according to a study published in the June issue of JAMA Psychiatry.
T. Scott Stroup, M.D., M.P.H., from the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, and colleagues estimated the age-specific incidence and prevalence of dementia diagnoses among older U.S. adults with schizophrenia (74,170 individuals) and a comparison group without SMI (7,937,603 individuals) in a retrospective cohort study.
The researchers found that at 66 years of age, the prevalence of diagnosed dementia was 27.9 and 1.3 percent…
