Investigating community-based care service factors delaying residential care home admission of community dwelling older adults and cost consequence.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine factors contributing to delaying care home admission; and compare the rates of care home admission and cost consequence between two government subsidised programmes, Veterans' Affairs Community Nursing (VCN) and Home Care Package (HCP).

Methods

Our national, population-based retrospective cohort study and cost analysis used existing, de-identified veterans' claims databases (2010-19) and the Registry of Senior Australians Historical Cohort (2010-17), plus aggregate programme expenditure data. This involved 21,636 VCN clients (20,980 aged 65-100 years), and an age- and sex-matched HCP cohort (N = 20,980).

Results

Service factors associated with lower risk of care home admission in the VCN cohort were periodic (versus continuous) service delivery (

SUBMITTER: Jeon YH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10611449 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature