Social engagement within the facility increased life expectancy in nursing home residents: a follow-up study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social engagement (SE) has been consistently shown to improve survival among community-dwelling older people, but the evidence in nursing home residents is inconclusive and prone to short-term reverse causation and confounding by major health determinants. Our main objective was to study the potential causal effect of within-the-facility social engagement (SE) on long-term all-cause mortality in care home residents.

Methods

A representative cohort of 382 nursing home residents in Madrid without severe physical and cognitive impairments at baseline was followed up for 10-year all-cause mortality. Standardized mortality curves for residents with low/null, moderate, and high levels of SE at baseline were estimated using Kaplan-Meier methods and spline-based survival

SUBMITTER: Pastor-Barriuso R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7672974 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature