Cognitive Decline in Long-term Care Residents Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ontario, Canada

JAMA. 2022 Oct 11;328(14):1456-1458. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.17214.

Authors

Colleen Webber¹, Daniel T Myran¹, Christina Milani², Luke Turcotte³, Haris Imsirovic⁴, Wenshan Li⁵, Peter Tanuseputro⁶

Affiliations

¹ Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
² Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
³ University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.
⁴ ICES, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This study examines the incidence of cognitive decline among long-term care residents in Ontario before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / complications
COVID-19* / epidemiology
Cognitive Dysfunction* / epidemiology
Cognitive Dysfunction* / etiology
Humans
Long-Term Care* / statistics & numerical data
Ontario / epidemiology
Pandemics / statistics & numerical data