Do home modifications reduce care home admissions for older people? A matched control evaluation of the Care & Repair Cymru service in Wales.
Age Ageing
; 49(6): 1056-1061, 2020 10 23.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
home advice and modification interventions aim to promote independent living for those living in the community, but quantitative evidence of their effectiveness is limited.AIM:
assess the risk of care home admissions for people with different frailty levels receiving home advice and modification interventions against a control group who do not. STUDY DESIGN ANDSETTING:
matched control evaluation using linked longitudinal data from the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank, comprising people aged 60-95, registered with a SAIL contributing general practice. The intervention group received the Care & Repair Cymru (C & RC) service, a home advice and modification service available to residents in Wales.METHODS:
frailty, age and gender were used in propensity score matching to assess the Hazard Ratio (HR) of care home admissions within a 1-, 3- and 5-year period for the intervention group (N = 93,863) compared to a matched control group (N = 93,863). Kaplan-Meier curves were used to investigate time to a care home admission.RESULTS:
the intervention group had an increased risk of a care home admission at 1-, 3- and 5-years [HR (95%CI)] for those classified as fit [1-year 2.02 (1.73, 2.36), 3-years 1.87 (1.72, 2.04), 5-years 1.99 (1.86, 2.13)] and mildly frail [1-year 1.25 (1.09, 1.42), 3-years 1.25 (1.17, 1.34), 5-years 1.30 (1.23, 1.38)], but a reduced risk of care home admission for moderately [1-year 0.66 (0.58, 0.75), 3-years 0.75 (0.70, 0.80), 5-years 0.83 (0.78, 0.88)] and severely frail individuals [1-year 0.44 (0.37, 0.54), 3-years 0.54 (0.49, 0.60), 5-years 0.60(0.55, 0.66)].CONCLUSIONS:
HRs indicated that the C & RC service helped to prevent care home admissions for moderately and severely frail individuals. The HRs generally increased with follow-up duration.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Fragilidade
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Evaluation_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Age Ageing
Ano de publicação:
2020
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Reino Unido