HealthDay (10/6, Gotkine) reports a study found that “for community-dwelling older adults, late-life traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with higher rates of incident dementia and health care needs.” The study included 132,113 matched pairs of community-dwelling individuals older than 65 years with and without TBI. The researchers “observed associations for late-life TBI with an increased rate of incident dementia (hazard ratios, 1.69 and 1.56 for no more than five years and greater than five years, respectively); use of publicly funded home care (HR, 1.30); and long-term care home admission (HR, 1.45). Older women from low-income neighborhoods more often had dementia compared with their male peers (29.0 versus 24.7 percent). Less home care was received by residents of smaller communities than those in larger communities (60.1 versus 64.6 percent), and they had a higher probability of admission to a long-term care home (26.3 versus 21.7 percent).” The study was published in CMAJ. (SOURCE: APA Headlines)