Patients with Social Deprivation present late with Dementia
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Do patients in areas of high social deprivation present later in the course of dementia and therefore are we missing opportunities to treat these patients earlier?
IRAS ID
211731
Contact name
Richard Barnes
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Merseycare NHS Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 5 months, 29 days
Research summary
We are hoping to establish if patients with dementia present later in the course of the illness from areas of higher social deprivation and therefore if we are missing opportunities to treat these patients early. The sooner antidementia medications are started in the course of the illness the more effective they are. We will retrospectively collect data from assessments of new patients who presented to Mossley Hill Hospital Old Age psychaitry services with dementia. We will simply be collecting data from electronic records and once the data is collected it will be anonymised. We will then analyse the data in order to see whether there is a relationship between the area on Liverpool from where patients are from, and the stage of the illness at which individuals present to services. Specifically, we want to see whether there is a systematic shift towards obtaining a dementia diagnosis at a later stage of the illness in areas that are more deprived. The information we collect from the assessments will be age,ethnicity,gender, MMSE on 1st presentation,duration of symptoms, diagnosis, postcode,smoking status, alcohol use,illicit drug use and other co-morbid medical conditions.
REC name
North West - Liverpool Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/NW/0852
Date of REC Opinion
13 Dec 2016
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion