The rate of dementia diagnosis for patients with schizophrenia has been found to be twice as high as for patients without this chronic, severe and disabling brain disorder. Cancer, however, was less likely. These results come from a study that followed over 30,000 older adults for a decade. This study also found that hospital admissions, hospital lengths of stay, nursing home facility use and nursing home length of stay for patients with schizophrenia were significantly greater than for patients without schizophrenia.