The institutionalized patients were older than the day care patients (day care, 81.85±7.56 years; institutionalized, 86.43±4.91 years).
A 39-year-old man who blamed a Manhattan psychiatrist for having him institutionalized 17 years ago was charged on Saturday with killing a female therapist in a furious knife attack and then slashing the psychiatrist when he tried to come to the woman's aid, law enforcement officials said.
White Caucasian non institutionalized 7 women are grouped according to their year of birth so that treatment and control groups of women differ with regard to the time period at which they turn a specific age.
29 However, Dwyer et al 16 reported a lower rate of polypharmacy of ≥9 drugs in residents institutionalized >5 years compared with those institutionalized <5 years.
Of the 659 persons with an endpoint, 298 persons were institutionalized (16.6% of the total population).
Four hundred seventy-eight residents were institutionalized <2 years; 514, >2 years.
Again, both groups showed comparable global cognitive impairment at follow-up (day-care: 17.20±5.63, range 5 28; institutionalized: 17.52±6.40, range 9 30).
The rate of polypharmacy, both for polypharmacy >5 drugs and >7 drugs, was higher in residents institutionalized <2 years, compared with those institutionalized >2 years: 50.2% versus (vs) 35.6%, and 23.4% vs 14.2%, respectively (P<0.001).
Most participants were males (55.6%), with an overall mean age of 57.5 ± 19.1 years and were not institutionalized (88.3%).
Results revealed no significant intergroup differences in mean GDS scores at follow-up (day care, 3.85±0.89; institutionalized, 3.83±1.23).
