Admissions to inpatient care facilities in the last year of life of community-dwelling older people in Europe.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the last year of life, many older people rather avoid admissions to inpatient care facilities. We describe and compare such admissions in the last year of life of 5092 community-dwelling older people in 15 European countries (+Israel).

Methods

Proxy-respondents of the older people, who participated in the longitudinal SHARE study, reported on admissions to inpatient care facilities (hospital, nursing home or hospice) during the last year of their life. Multivariable regression analyses assessed associations between hospitalizations and personal/contextual characteristics.

Results

The proportion of people who had been admitted at least once to an inpatient care facility in the last year of life ranged from 54% (France) to 76% (Austria, Israel, Slovenia).

SUBMITTER: Overbeek A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5881774 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature