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Living at home after emergency hospital admission: prospective cohort study in older adults with and without cognitive spectrum disorder

BACKGROUND: Cognitive spectrum disorders (CSDs) are common in hospitalised older adults and associated with adverse outcomes. Their association with the maintenance of independent living has not been established. The aim was to establish the role of CSDs on the likelihood of living at home 30 days a...

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Autores principales: Burton, Jennifer K., Guthrie, Bruce, Hapca, Simona M., Cvoro, Vera, Donnan, Peter T., Reynish, Emma L.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6288896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30526577
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1199-z
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author Burton, Jennifer K.
Guthrie, Bruce
Hapca, Simona M.
Cvoro, Vera
Donnan, Peter T.
Reynish, Emma L.
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Hapca, Simona M.
Cvoro, Vera
Donnan, Peter T.
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description BACKGROUND: Cognitive spectrum disorders (CSDs) are common in hospitalised older adults and associated with adverse outcomes. Their association with the maintenance of independent living has not been established. The aim was to establish the role of CSDs on the likelihood of living at home 30 days after discharge or being newly admitted to a care home. METHODS: A prospective cohort study with routine data linkage was conducted based on admissions data from the acute medical unit of a district general hospital in Scotland. 5570 people aged ≥ 65 years admitted from a private residence who survived to discharge and received the Older Persons Routine Acute Assessment (OPRAA) during an incident emergency medical admission were included. The outcome measures were living at home, defined as a private residential address, 30 days after discharge and new care home admission at hospital discharge. Outcomes were ascertained through linkage to routine data sources. RESULTS: Of the 5570 individuals admitted from a private residence who survived to discharge, those without a CSD were more likely to be living at home at 30 days than those with a CSD (93.4% versus 81.7%; difference 11.7%, 95%CI 9.7–13.8%). New discharge to a care home affected 236 (4.2%) of the cohort, 181 (76.7%) of whom had a CSD. Logistic regression modelling identified that all four CSD categories were associated with a reduced likelihood of living at home and an increased likelihood of discharge to a care home. Those with delirium superimposed on dementia were the least likely to be living at home (OR 0.25), followed by those with dementia (OR 0.43), then unspecified cognitive impairment (OR 0.55) and finally delirium (OR 0.57). CONCLUSIONS: Individuals with a CSD are at significantly increased risk of not returning home after hospitalisation, and those with CSDs account for the majority of new admissions to care homes on discharge. Individuals with delirium superimposed on dementia are the most affected. We need to understand how to configure and deliver healthcare services to enable older people to remain as independent as possible for as long as possible and to ensure transitions of care are managed supportively.
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spelling pubmed-62888962018-12-14 Living at home after emergency hospital admission: prospective cohort study in older adults with and without cognitive spectrum disorder Burton, Jennifer K. Guthrie, Bruce Hapca, Simona M. Cvoro, Vera Donnan, Peter T. Reynish, Emma L. BMC Med Research Article BACKGROUND: Cognitive spectrum disorders (CSDs) are common in hospitalised older adults and associated with adverse outcomes. Their association with the maintenance of independent living has not been established. The aim was to establish the role of CSDs on the likelihood of living at home 30 days after discharge or being newly admitted to a care home. METHODS: A prospective cohort study with routine data linkage was conducted based on admissions data from the acute medical unit of a district general hospital in Scotland. 5570 people aged ≥ 65 years admitted from a private residence who survived to discharge and received the Older Persons Routine Acute Assessment (OPRAA) during an incident emergency medical admission were included. The outcome measures were living at home, defined as a private residential address, 30 days after discharge and new care home admission at hospital discharge. Outcomes were ascertained through linkage to routine data sources. RESULTS: Of the 5570 individuals admitted from a private residence who survived to discharge, those without a CSD were more likely to be living at home at 30 days than those with a CSD (93.4% versus 81.7%; difference 11.7%, 95%CI 9.7–13.8%). New discharge to a care home affected 236 (4.2%) of the cohort, 181 (76.7%) of whom had a CSD. Logistic regression modelling identified that all four CSD categories were associated with a reduced likelihood of living at home and an increased likelihood of discharge to a care home. Those with delirium superimposed on dementia were the least likely to be living at home (OR 0.25), followed by those with dementia (OR 0.43), then unspecified cognitive impairment (OR 0.55) and finally delirium (OR 0.57). CONCLUSIONS: Individuals with a CSD are at significantly increased risk of not returning home after hospitalisation, and those with CSDs account for the majority of new admissions to care homes on discharge. Individuals with delirium superimposed on dementia are the most affected. We need to understand how to configure and deliver healthcare services to enable older people to remain as independent as possible for as long as possible and to ensure transitions of care are managed supportively. BioMed Central 2018-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6288896/ /pubmed/30526577 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1199-z Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Hapca, Simona M.
Cvoro, Vera
Donnan, Peter T.
Reynish, Emma L.
Living at home after emergency hospital admission: prospective cohort study in older adults with and without cognitive spectrum disorder
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title_short Living at home after emergency hospital admission: prospective cohort study in older adults with and without cognitive spectrum disorder
title_sort living at home after emergency hospital admission: prospective cohort study in older adults with and without cognitive spectrum disorder
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6288896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30526577
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1199-z
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