Global prevalence of mild cognitive impairment among older adults living in nursing homes: a meta-analysis and systematic review of epidemiological surveys

Abstract

Review question / Objective: To explore the prevalence of mild cognitive impairment among older adults living in nursing homes. among older adults living in nursing homes. Eligibility criteria: The inclusion criteria were defined based on the PICOS acronym: Participants (P): Older adults living in nursing homes and were screened for mild cognitive impairment (MCI); Intervention (I): not applicable; Comparison (C): not applicable; Outcome (O): prevalence of MCI or the data can calculate the prevalence of MCI; Study design (S): cohort studies with reporting baseline data, case-control, cross-sectional, and studies with accessible data published in a peer-reviewed journal. Exclusion criteria included samples from mixed resources (e.g. nursing homes and communities), reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, case studies, or commentaries were excluded. When the samples in more than one published paper from the same dataset, only the one with the largest sample was included.