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1. aIncluded another nursing home/swing bed, psychiatric hospital, inpatient rehabilitation facility, ID/DD facility, long-term care hospitals, hospice, and other unspecified admission sources
2. bIncluded non-Alzheimer’s dementia (e.g. vascular or multi-infarct dementia), mixed dementia; frontotemporal dementia (e.g. Pick’s disease), and dementia related to stroke, Parkinson’s or Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases