Physical health challenges faced by elders with severe mental illness: population-based retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Severe mental illness (SMI), which includes schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder, has profound health impacts, even in the elderly.

Aims

To evaluate relative risk of hospital admission and length of hospital stay for physical illness in elders with SMI.

Method

To construct a population-based retrospective cohort observed from April 2007 to March 2016, data from a case registry with full but de-identified electronic health records were retrieved for patients of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, the single secondary mental healthcare service provider in south-east London. We compared participants with SMI aged >60 years old with the general population of the same age and residing in the same areas through data linkage

SUBMITTER: Chang CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11536298 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature