(HealthDay)—Residential care communities (RCCs) with a high proportion of residents diagnosed with dementia have a higher prevalence of depression and need for assistance with activities of daily living, according to a study published online Dec. 4 in the National Health Statistics Reports, a publication from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Manisha Sengupta, Ph.D., and Christine Caffrey, Ph.D., from the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, examined characteristics of RCCs and their residents by the prevalence of Alzheimer disease and other dementias.
Overall, 25.3 percent of RCCs had more than 75 percent of their residents diagnosed…
