Identifying common patterns of health services use: a longitudinal study of older Swiss adults' care trajectories.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Population ageing puts pressure on health systems initially designed to handle acute and episodic illnesses. Segmenting an ageing population based on its healthcare utilization may enable policymakers to undertake evidence-based resource planning. We aimed to derive a typology of healthcare utilization trajectories in Swiss older adults.

Methods

Our work used data from the Lc65 + study, a population-based cohort of individuals aged 65 to 70 years at enrolment. The dimensions of healthcare utilization considered were ambulatory care, emergency care, hospitalizations, professional home care and nursing home stay. We applied the Sequence Analysis framework, within which we quantified the variation between each multidimensional pair of sequences, implemented a cluster

SUBMITTER: Roth L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9793504 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature