HOME OR HOSPITAL FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA AND ONE OR MORE OTHER MULTIMORBIDITIES: WHAT IS THE POTENTIAL TO REDUCE AVOIDABLE EMERGENCY ADMISSIONS? | Online Medical Assistant Training Programs

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Older people with multiple health problems often call a 999 ambulance. Where one of these health problems is dementia, the risk of ambulance use, A&E attendance and hospital admission are all increased. It is important to try and reduce this, as patients with dementia tend to have poor outcomes when they are taken to A&E or admitted to hospital unnecessarily.

This study aims to find out why older people with multiple health issues including dementia are taken to hospital by am…

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HOME OR HOSPITAL FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA AND ONE OR MORE OTHER MULTIMORBIDITIES: WHAT IS THE POTENTIAL TO REDUCE AVOIDABLE EMERGENCY ADMISSIONS?