Drilling into the data
Lived experience
Is self-harm a precursor to dementia?
- Those living with dementia who self-harmed tended to be younger at their initial dementia diagnosis than those with no record of self-harm.
- Being divorced, widowed or separated predicted a lower likelihood for people with dementia to present to hospital for self-harm than those that were still living with a partner.
- People living with dementia with complex psychiatric profiles also had a higher risk of presenting to hospital for self-harm.
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