Prolonged Wait Time Prior to Entry to Home Care Packages Increases the Risk of Mortality and Transition to Permanent Residential Aged Care Services: Findings from the Registry of Older South Australians (ROSA).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Older Australians prefer to live in their own homes for longer and reforms have attempted to increase the volume of home care packages (HCPs) accordingly but there remains a queue with the longer-term consequences unclear.

Objectives

This study aims to characterise older Australians according to their wait times for a home care package (HCP), evaluate the association between wait time and mortality and evaluate the association between wait time and transition to permanent residential aged care services after HCP.

Design

A retrospective cohort study using data from the National Historical cohort (2003-2014) of the Registry of Older South Australians (ROSA) was conducted.

Setting

Home based aged care services, national cohort.

Methods

Wait time

SUBMITTER: Visvanathan R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6399871 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature