Apathy: Risk Factor for Mortality in Nursing Home Patients

To determine the prognostic value of apathy for mortality in patients of somatic (SC) and dementia special care (DSC) nursing home (NH) units.Longitudinal design, secondary analyses of a 2-year, cluster-randomized trial with six measurements, approximately 4 months in between.SC and DSC-units of Dutch NHs.NH-patients of seventeen SC-units (n = 342) and sixteen DCS-units (n = 371).Data were available for 713 NH-patients, 266 of whom died during...