Use of primary care and other healthcare services between age 85 and 90 years: longitudinal analysis of a single-year birth cohort, the Newcastle 85+ study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe, using data from the Newcastle 85+ cohort study, the use of primary care and other healthcare services by 85-year-olds as they age.

Design

Longitudinal population-based cohort study.

Setting

Newcastle on Tyne and North Tyneside, UK.

Participants

Community dwelling and institutionalised men and women recruited through general practices (n=845, 319 men and 526 women).

Results

Contact was established with 97% (n=1409/1459) of eligible 85-year-olds, consent obtained from 74% (n=1042/1409) and 851 agreed to undergo the multidimensional health assessment and a general practice medical records review. A total of 845 participants had complete data at baseline for this study (319 male, 526 female), with 344 (118 male, 226 female) reinterview

SUBMITTER: Yadegarfar ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5786130 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature