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Transitions between levels of dependency among older people receiving social care - a retrospective longitudinal cohort study in a Swedish municipality

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BMC GERIATRICS
卷 21, 期 1, 页码 -

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BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12877-021-02283-x

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Functional decline; Disablement process; Healthy ageing; Reablement; Prevention; Health promotion

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  1. social investment fund in the municipality of Ostersund, Sweden
  2. Umea University

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Baseline distributions and transitions over time between levels of dependency among older persons after being granted social care in a Swedish municipality were described descriptively and analysed with survival analysis. Older people in Sweden being allocated home help are at high risk for decline towards higher levels of dependency, especially those at mild or moderate dependency levels at baseline. It is important for municipalities to implement cost-effective preventative interventions for older people at an early stage before a decline toward increasing levels of dependency.
BackgroundKnowledge is scarce on how needs for home help and special housing evolve among older people who begin to receive support from municipal social care. The purpose of this study was to describe baseline distributions and transitions over time between levels of dependency among older persons after being granted social care in a Swedish municipality.MethodsBased on a longitudinal cohort study in a Swedish municipality, data was collected retrospectively from municipal records. All persons 65years or older who received their first decision on social care during 2010 (n=415) were categorized as being in mild, moderate, severe, or total dependency, and were observed until the end of 2013. Baseline distributions and transitions over time were described descriptively and analysed with survival analysis, with the Kaplan-Meier estimator, over the entire follow-up period. To test potential differences in relation to gender, we used the Cox-Proportional hazards model.ResultsBaseline distributions between mild, moderate, severe, and total dependency were 53, 16, 24, and 7.7%. During the first year, between 40 and 63% remained at their initial level of dependency. Among those with mild and moderate levels of dependency at baseline, a large proportion declined towards increasing levels of dependency over time; around 40% had increased their dependency level 1 year from baseline and at the end of the follow-up, 75% had increased their dependency level or died.ConclusionsOlder people in Sweden being allocated home help are at high risk for decline towards higher levels of dependency, especially those at mild or moderate dependency levels at baseline. Taken together, it is important that municipalities make use of existing knowledge so that they implement cost-effective preventative interventions for older people at an early stage before a decline toward increasing levels of dependency.

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