Catastrophic health expenditure among Chinese adults living alone with cognitive impairment: findings from the CHARLS.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The catastrophic health expenditure of older adults results in serious consequences; however, the issue of whether cognitive status and living situations contribute to such financial burdens is uncertain. Our aim was to compare the differences in catastrophic health expenditure between adults living alone with cognitive impairment and those adults living with others and with normal cognition.

Methods

We identified 909 observations of participants living alone with cognitive impairment (cases) and 37,432 observations of participants living with others and with normal cognition (comparators) from the 2011/2012, 2013, 2015 and 2018 waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). We used propensity score matching (1:2) to create matched cases and

SUBMITTER: Li C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9351200 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature