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Cognitive Change at the End of Life in Nursing Home Residents: Differential Trajectories of Terminal Decline

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2019
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Hülür, G., Wolf, H., Riese, F., & Theill, N. (2019). Cognitive Change at the End of Life in Nursing Home Residents: Differential Trajectories of Terminal Decline. Gerontology, 65, 57–67. https://doi.org/10.1159/000490614

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BACKGROUND: Research on terminal decline has widely documented that cognitive performance steeply declines with nearing death. To date, it is unclear whether these changes are normative, based on pathologies associated with (preclinical) dementia, or both.

OBJECTIVES: We analyzed heterogeneity in trajectories of terminal cognitive change in Swiss nursing home residents with the objective of examining whether terminal change is normative or whether one or multiple subgroup(s) with relative stability exist.

METHODS: We performed a lon

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  • Hülür, Gizem
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  • Wolf, Henrike
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  • Riese, Florian
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  • Theill, Nathan
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65

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1

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57

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67

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English

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2019-01-01

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2018-11-05

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0304-324X

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149 since deposited on 2018-11-05
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186 since deposited on 2018-11-05
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Hülür, G., Wolf, H., Riese, F., & Theill, N. (2019). Cognitive Change at the End of Life in Nursing Home Residents: Differential Trajectories of Terminal Decline. Gerontology, 65, 57–67. https://doi.org/10.1159/000490614

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