Association Between Restricting Symptoms and Disability After Critical Illness Among Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Older adults who survive critical illness are at risk for increased disability, limiting their independence and quality of life. We sought to evaluate whether the occurrence of symptoms that restrict activity, that is, restricting symptoms, is associated with increased disability following an ICU hospitalization.

Design

Prospective longitudinal study of community-living adults 70 years old or older who were interviewed monthly between 1998 and 2018.

Setting

South Central Connecticut, United States.

Patients

Two hundred fifty-one ICU admissions from 202 participants who were discharged alive from the hospital.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Occurrence of 15 restricting symptoms (operationalized as number of symptoms an

SUBMITTER: Jain S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12019769 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature