Frailty in Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries and Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

A growing proportion of the population is enrolling in Medicare Advantage (MA), which typically offers additional benefits compared with traditional Medicare (TM).

Objective

To determine whether frailty and frailty trajectories differ between MA enrollees and TM enrollees.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study used data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (2015-2016). Analyses were conducted from August 2023 to March 2024. Participants were community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older.

Exposure

Enrollment in MA vs TM.

Main outcomes and measures

Frailty was calculated by a frailty index (FI) (range, 0-1, with higher values indicating greater frailty) and the Fried Frailty Phenotype (F

SUBMITTER: Shi SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11365002 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature