Insomnia and health services utilization in middle-aged and older adults: results from the Health and Retirement Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Complaints of poor sleep are common among older adults. We investigated the prospective association between insomnia symptoms and hospitalization, use of home health care services, use of nursing homes, and use of any of these services in a population-based study of middle-aged and older adults.

Methods

We studied 14,355 adults aged 55 and older enrolled in the 2006 and 2008 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Logistic regression was used to study the association between insomnia symptoms (0, 1, or ≥ 2) in 2006 and reports of health service utilization in 2008, after adjustment for demographic and clinical characteristics.

Results

Compared with respondents reporting no insomnia symptoms, those reporting one symptom had a greater odds of hospitalizatio

SUBMITTER: Kaufmann CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3814231 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature