Hazan, Jemma;
Liu, Kathy Y;
Isaacs, Jeremy D;
Burns, Alistair;
Howard, Robert;
(2023)
Has COVID-19 affected dementia diagnosis rates in England?
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
, 38
(7)
, Article e5976. 10.1002/gps.5976.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic impacted on the provision of care and routine activity of all National Health Service (NHS) services. While General Practitioner referrals to memory services in England have returned to pre-pandemic levels, the estimated dementia diagnosis rate (DDR) fell by 5.4% between March 2020 and February 2023. METHODS: In this paper we explore whether this reduction is accurate or is an artefact of the way the NHS collects data. RESULTS: We explore the processes that may have affected national dementia diagnosis rates during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. CONCLUSIONS: We discuss what action could be taken to improve the DDR in the future.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Has COVID-19 affected dementia diagnosis rates in England? |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/gps.5976 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5976 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Authors. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | COVID-19, assessment, dementia, diagnosis, memory service |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry > Epidemiology and Applied Clinical Research UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry > Mental Health of Older People |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10174198 |
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