Is more care recipient time at home also a family caregiver-centered quality of life measure?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Time in healthcare facilities is associated with worse patient quality of life (QoL); however, impact on family caregiver QoL is unknown. We evaluate care recipient days not at home-days in the emergency department (ED), inpatient (IP) care, and post-acute care (PAC)-to understand how care recipient days not at home correspond to family caregiver QoL.

Methods

Secondary data were linked to care recipient utilization data. Elastic net machine learning models were used to evaluate the impact of a single day of utilization in each setting on binary QoL outcomes. We also compared composite weighted and unweighted "days not at home" variables. Two time periods, 6 and 18 months, were used to predict three caregiver QoL measures (self-rated health, depressive symptoms, an

SUBMITTER: Van Houtven CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11647572 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature