Hearing and Cognitive Impairments Increase the Risk of Long-term Care Admissions.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

The objective of the study was to understand how sensory impairments, alone or in combination with cognitive impairment (CI), relate to long-term care (LTC) admissions.

Research design and methods

This retrospective cohort study used existing information from two interRAI assessments; the Resident Assessment Instrument for Home Care (RAI-HC) and the Minimum Data Set 2.0 (MDS 2.0), which were linked at the individual level for 371,696 unique individuals aged 65+ years. The exposure variables of interest included hearing impairment (HI), vision impairment (VI) and dual sensory impairment (DSI) ascertained at participants' most recent RAI-HC assessment. The main outcome was admission to LTC. Survival analysis, using Cox proportional hazards regression

SUBMITTER: Williams N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6938463 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature