Accumulated long-term care benefits by risk assessment scales for incident functional disability : A six-year follow-up study of long-term care receipt data

Objectives This study aims to evaluate the differences in the cumulative benefit costs of public long-term care [LTC] insurance services, using a risk assessment scale score, which predicts incident functional disability among older people.Methods A baseline survey was conducted in 2010 involving individuals aged 65 and above from 12 municipalities in Japan who were not eligible for public LTC insurance benefits (response rate: 64.7%). Using public LTC claim records, we followed LTC service costs among 46,616 individuals over a period of about six years (up to 76 months). We used risk assessment scales to assess incident functional disability (0-48). We adopted a classical linear regression model, Tobit regression model, and linear regression with multiple imputation for missing values.Results Overall, 7,348 (15.8%) of the participants had used LTC services during the follow-up period. The risk assessment score for incident functional disability was positively associated with the cumulative costs of LTC services per person, length of usage period of LTC services, and proportion of people certified for long-term care/support need and for over long-term care level 2. After adjusting for confounding variables, the six-year cumulative costs of LTC services were around JPY 31.6 thousand higher per point of risk score (95% confidence interval [CI]: 28.3 to 35.0). The costs were around JPY 8.9 thousand (95%CI: 6.5 to 11.3)higher in the low score group (risk score ≤ 16), and JPY 75.3 thousand (95%CI: 67.4 to 83.1) higher in the high score group (risk score ≥ 17). When we adopted other estimated models, the major results and trends were not largely different.Conclusions In this study, the risk assessment scale score could estimate subsequent LTC benefit costs. Community interventions to improve and maintain variable aspects of risk assessment scores may help contribute to a reduction in public LTC benefits within municipalities.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:68

Enthalten in:

Nihon koshu eisei zasshi] Japanese journal of public health - 68(2021), 11 vom: 04. Dez., Seite 743-752

Sprache:

Japanisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Saito, Masashige [VerfasserIn]
Tsuji, Taishi [VerfasserIn]
Fujita, Kinya [VerfasserIn]
Kondo, Naoki [VerfasserIn]
Aida, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Ojima, Toshiyuki [VerfasserIn]
Kondo, Katsunori [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Leading indicator
Long-term care benefit
Long-term care prevention
Long-term care receipt data
Older adults
Risk assessment scales for incident functional disability

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Date Completed 07.12.2021

Date Revised 14.12.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.11236/jph.21-056

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM329175254