Impact of COVID-19 on care-home mortality and life expectancy in Scotland.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 deaths are commoner among care-home residents, but the mortality burden has not been quantified.

Methods

Care-home residency was identified via a national primary care registration database linked to mortality data. Life expectancy was estimated using Makeham-Gompertz models to (i) describe yearly life expectancy from November 2015 to October 2020 (ii) compare life expectancy (during 2016-18) between care-home residents and the wider population and (iii) apply care-home life expectancy estimates to COVID-19 death counts to estimate years of life lost (YLL).

Results

Among care-home residents, life expectancy in 2015/16 to 2019/20 ranged from 2.7 to 2.3 years for women and 2.3 to 1.8 years for men. Age-sex-specific life expectancy in 2016-18 in care-

SUBMITTER: Burton JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8135527 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature