After ICU discharge, Alzheimer’s patients’ risk of dying doubles: Study

(By Bari Faye Dean for Becker’s Hospital Review)

Older adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia are twice as likely to die within a month or during the year following discharge from an intensive care unit compared to patients discharged from the ICU who do not have ADRD, according to a study published July 1 in the American Journal of Critical Care. Continue reading here…

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