The Swedish registry for behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD)
Linus Jönsson, Elisabet Londos, Moa Wibom, Katarina Nägga · 2025
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Description
Linus Jönsson and co-authors describe, in a 2025 paper, Sweden's national registry for behavioral symptoms in dementia. Agitation, wandering, and mood swings are common in dementia and drive much of its suffering and care load. The registry began in 2010 to build an evidence base for better care.
Staff at care facilities log symptoms on a standard scale, hunt for triggers, set care goals, and follow outcomes. From 2010 to 2023 the registry gathered 324,900 entries covering 110,684 people. Alzheimer's was the top diagnosis at 33 percent. Pain was the trigger named most often across symptoms. The most common care goal was affirmation and security, above all for agitation. Median survival ran 24 months for men and 30.5 for women.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Linus Jönsson, Elisabet Londos, Moa Wibom, Katarina Nägga |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |