Do home adaptation interventions help to reduce emergency fall admissions? A national longitudinal data-linkage study of 657,536 older adults living in Wales (UK) between 2010 and 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

falls are common in older people, but evidence for the effectiveness of preventative home adaptations is limited.

Aim

determine whether a national home adaptation service, Care&Repair Cymru (C&RC), identified individuals at risk of falls occurring at home and reduced the likelihood of falls.

Study design

retrospective longitudinal controlled non-randomised intervention cohort study.

Setting

our cohort consisted of 657,536 individuals aged 60+ living in Wales (UK) between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2017. About 123,729 individuals received a home adaptation service.

Methods

we created a dataset with up to 41 quarterly observations per person. For each quarter, we observed if a fall occurred at home that resulted in either an emergency depart

SUBMITTER: Hollinghurst J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8753038 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature