Do home modifications reduce care home admissions for older people? A matched control evaluation of the Care & Repair Cymru service in Wales.

ABSTRACT:

Background

home advice and modification interventions aim to promote independent living for those living in the community, but quantitative evidence of their effectiveness is limited.

Aim

assess the risk of care home admissions for people with different frailty levels receiving home advice and modification interventions against a control group who do not.

Study design and setting

matched control evaluation using linked longitudinal data from the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank, comprising people aged 60-95, registered with a SAIL contributing general practice. The intervention group received the Care & Repair Cymru (C & RC) service, a home advice and modification service available to residents in Wales.

Methods

frailty, age and gender were

SUBMITTER: Hollinghurst J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7583515 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature