Risk Factors of Skilled Nursing Facility Admissions and the Interrelation With Hospitalization and Amount of Informal Caregiving Received.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The correlations between skilled nursing facility (SNF) admissions, number of hospitalizations, and informal caregiving hours received after adjusting for physical and cognitive function and sociodemographic covariates are not well understood.

Objective

The objective of this study was to better understand risk factors for SNF admissions and the interrelation with hospitalizations and amount of informal caregiving received, this study applied a novel joint modeling analysis to simultaneously explore the correlation and shared information between the 3 outcomes.

Research design

This was an observational follow-up study.

Subjects

Data from 4836 older Americans included in the 2011-2015 rounds of the National Health and Aging Trends Study were linked wit

SUBMITTER: Cao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8916995 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature