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cord-293730-dlqo6fep	Caratozzolo, Salvatore	The impact of COVID-19 on health status of home-dwelling elderly patients with dementia in East Lombardy, Italy: results from COVIDEM network	2020-09-12		.txt	text/plain	3723	179	47	Information on age, sex, education, clinical characteristics including dementia diagnosis, dementia severity by Clinical Dementia Rating scale (CDR) [6] , Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) [7] , and Basic Activity of Daily Life (BADL) [8] , walking, total number of chronic diseases and type of diseases among a pre-defined list (hypertension, COPD, renal disease, heart disease, cancer, gastrointestinal diseases, hepatic disease, diabetes, thyroid disorders, arthritis), number of drugs, and flu vaccination were obtained from previous medical records based on the last recorded visit at CDCD. Findings from our study showed that COVID-19 affected over 10% of home-dwelling older patients with dementia who showed high risk of adverse outcomes, such as unplanned hospitalization and mortality. Findings of this study are in line with previous reports [10] [11] [12] and add new insight by showing that COVID-19 exerted a relevant impact on health status of home-dwelling elderly patients with dementia determining a high rate of hospitalization and mortality.	./cache/cord-293730-dlqo6fep.txt	./txt/cord-293730-dlqo6fep.txt