The prevalence of anxiety disorders in nursing homes

The Factors Associated With Anxiety Symptom Severity in Older Adults Living in Nursing Homes and Other Residential Aged Care Facilities

“…Specifically, attachment style, lower levels of mastery, higher levels of cognitive impairment, and the perception that physical health was poor rather than excellent all made significant contributions to the model and were all strongly associated with higher levels of self-reported anxiety within the RACF sample. Consistent with previous aged care research (e.g., Cheok, Snowdon, Miller, & Vaughan, 1996;Haugan, Innstrand, & Moksnes, 2013;Neville & Teri, 2011;Smalbrugge, Pot, Jongenelis, Beekman, & Eefsting, 2005), MDD was found to have a strong and significant association with anxiety symptoms. Within the current sample, when all other variables were held constant, the predicted GAI score was 6.29 times greater for participants with an MDD diagnosis than for those without MDD.…”

The prevalence, reporting, and treatment of anxiety among older adults in nursing homes and other residential aged care facilities

“…As chronic physical illnesses and functional limitations have been found to be significantly associated with GAD (Beekman et al, 1998;Van Balkom et al, 2000), the higher rate of this disorder within the current aged care sample may be explained by the fact that this population is typically more frail, functionally dependent, and medically complex than their communitydwelling counterparts (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2015). Agoraphobia (2.7%), SAD (1.7%), and panic disorder (1.7%) were found to be relatively uncommon, which is consistent with the limited previous research in RACFs (Cheok et al, 1996;Jervis and Manson, 2007;Smalbrugge et al, 2005b). Similar estimates have been found within community elderly samples (e.g., Beekman et al, 1998;Kirmizioglu et al, 2009).…”

“…Previous research reported mixed findings on the relationship between cognitive impairment and anxiety (Cheok et al, 1996;Smalbrugge et al, 2005b). In this study, mild cognitive impairment was not found to be significantly associated with the presence of threshold or subthreshold anxiety disorders, which is consistent with research by Cheok et al (1996) and Neville and Teri (2011).…”

“…Previous research reported mixed findings on the relationship between cognitive impairment and anxiety (Cheok et al, 1996;Smalbrugge et al, 2005b). In this study, mild cognitive impairment was not found to be significantly associated with the presence of threshold or subthreshold anxiety disorders, which is consistent with research by Cheok et al (1996) and Neville and Teri (2011). Some research has found higher levels of cognitive functioning to be significantly associated with anxiety (Smalbrugge et al, 2005b) while others have reported higher rates of anxiety among those with lower cognitive functioning (Parmelee et al, 1993;Zuidema et al, 2009).…”

“…In agreement with previous late-life research (Bryant et al, 2008;Krasucki et al, 1999), threshold GAD (11.1%) and specific phobia (6.1%) were the two most common anxiety disorders. Again, rates of both disorders in the current RACF sample were in the upper range or higher than previous (Bland et al, 1988;Cheok et al, 1996;Class et al, 1996;Junginger et al, 1993;Smalbrugge et al, 2005). The prevalence of GAD was also higher than that found in community-dwelling elderly samples (Beekman et al, 1998;Byers et al, 2010).…”