Long-Term Care Service Trajectories and Their Predictors for Persons Living With Dementia : Results From a Canadian Study

OBJECTIVE: We used latent transition analysis to explore common long-term care (LTC) service trajectories and their predictors for older adults with dementia.

METHOD: Using linked administrative data collected over a 4-year interval (2008-2011), the study sample included 3,541 older persons with dementia who were clients of publicly funded LTC in British Columbia, Canada.

RESULTS: Our results revealed relatively equal reliance on home care (HC) and facility-based residential care (RC) as starting points. HC service users were further differentiated into "intermittent HC" and "continuous HC" groups. Mortality was highest for the RC group. Age, changes in cognitive performance, and activities of daily living were important predictors of transitions into HC or RC.

DISCUSSION: Reliance on HC and RC by persons with dementia raises critical questions about ensuring that an adequate range of services is available in local communities to support aging in place and to ensure appropriate timing for entry into institutions.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

Journal of aging and health - 31(2019), 1 vom: 19. Jan., Seite 139-164

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cloutier, Denise S [VerfasserIn]
Penning, Margaret J [VerfasserIn]
Nuernberger, Kim [VerfasserIn]
Taylor, Deanne [VerfasserIn]
MacDonald, Stuart [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Dementia
Journal Article
Latent transition analysis
Long-term care
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Trajectories
Transitions

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 10.02.2020

Date Revised 10.02.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/0898264317725618

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM274873710