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Mortality of the Aged with Chronic Brain Syndrome
Author(s) -
PECK ARTHUR,
WOLLOCH LEON,
RODSTEIN MANUEL
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1973.tb01689.x
Subject(s) - medicine , bronchopneumonia , mortality rate , pediatrics , geriatrics , gerontology , psychiatry
The five‐year survival rates for a group of aged persons in a home and hospital for the aged showed that those with chronic brain syndrome (CBS) died at a much higher rate than those without CBS. Bronchopneumonia predominated as the cause of death among those with CBS but not among those without CBS. The mortality for 145 subjects was computed by relating the actual number of deaths to the expected (life tables) number of deaths as a function of age and sex of residents in the same institution. Differences, on the basis of presence or absence of CBS, were statistically significant for females irrespective of whether they were in relatively poor, or relatively good physical condition.