Table 9.
Timing of identification of incident and prevalent dementia in Long-term Care among adults 45 years of age and older, Saskatchewan, by criteria at first identification (April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013)
| Criteria at first identification of dementia | Incident cases (N = 1,144) | Prevalent cases (N = 3,217) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First identification at admissiona | First identification ≥30 days after admissionb | First identification at admissionb | First identification ≥30 days after admissionb | |||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| CPS Scale Scorec | ||||||||
| 2 Mild impairment (MMSE EA 19) | 334 | 75.56 | 108 | 24.44 | 769 | 68.78 | 349 | 31.22 |
| 3 Moderate impairment (MMSE EA 15) | 358 | 81.17 | 83 | 18.83 | 945 | 69.53 | 414 | 30.46 |
| 4 Moderately severe impairment (MMSE EA 7) | 70 | 89.74 | 8 | 10.26 | 145 | 71.78 | 57 | 28.22 |
| 5 Severe impairment (MMSE EA 5) | 95 | 86.36 | 15 | 13.64 | 241 | 67.89 | 114 | 32.11 |
| 6 Very severe impairment (MMSE EA 1) | 28 | 80.0 | 7 | 20.0 | 52 | 57.14 | 39 | 42.85 |
| Disease category | ||||||||
| Alzheimer disease and CPS <2 | <6 | * | <6 | * | 6+ | * | <6 | * |
| Dementia other than Alzheimer disease and CPS <2 | 6+ | * | 6+ | * | 6+ | * | 6+ | * |
| Total | 912 | 79.72 | 232 | 20.28 | 2,216 | 68.89 | 1,001 | 31.11 |
*Not reported due to an insufficient number of cases (i.e., between 1 and 5) or an indeterminate number of cases
aAdmission occurred April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013
bAdmission occurred prior to April 1, 2012
cMini-Mental State Examination Equivalent Average (MMSE EA) scores derived from Morris et al. 1994 [50]