Variation in the health outcomes associated with frailty among home care clients: relevance of caregiver distress and client sex.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The identification of contextual factors that modify associations between client frailty and their health and service use outcomes is essential for informed home health care and policy planning. Our objective was to examine variation in the associations between frailty and select 1-year health outcomes by caregiver distress and client sex among community-residing older care recipients.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study using linked population-based clinical and health administrative databases for all long-stay home care clients (n = 234,552) aged 66+ years assessed during April 2010-2013 in Ontario, Canada. Frailty was assessed using a previously validated 72-item frailty index (FI). Presence of caregiver distress was derived from clinical assessme

SUBMITTER: Maxwell CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6134755 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature