Rehabilitation Intensity and Successful Discharge in Persons with Dementia

Audiology, speech-language therapy, and occupational therapy (OSLA) can address functional deficits of dementia, but we do not know this set of services’ effect on successful discharge after heart failure hospitalization in persons living with dementia. We hypothesize that increased OSLA time was associated with successful discharge home from skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in Veterans with dementia (VwD) after heart failure (HF) hospitalization.