The effect of multidomain lifestyle intervention on health care service use and costs - secondary analyses from the Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability (FINGER): a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Finnish multidomain lifestyle intervention study to prevent cognitive impairment and disability (FINGER, N = 1259), a randomised controlled trial had beneficial effects on morbidity in older people, but to what extent such a lifestyle intervention may affect the use of health care services and their costs especially in long term are unknown.

Objective

This study investigated the effect of a two-year FINGER multidomain intervention on health care service use during the 8-year follow-up. The costs of service use were also evaluated.

Methods

Health care service use obtained from national health care registers (days of inpatient hospital stay and long-term care, number of visits to emergency services, hospital as outpatient, home care, primary care physicia

SUBMITTER: Saaskilahti M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11584201 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature