European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna, Austria.
Health Serv Res. 2015 Feb;50(1):305-20. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12211. Epub 2014 Aug 19.
To examine the patterns of health care utilization by the elderly and test the influence of functional decline.
We used the three regular waves of the SHARE survey to estimate the influence of frailty on health care utilization in 10 European countries. We controlled for the main correlates of frailty and unobserved individual effects.
The frail elderly increase their primary and hospital care utilization before the onset of disability. Multimorbidity moderates the effect of frailty on care utilization.
The prevalence of frailty is high in most countries and is expected to increase. This renders frailty prevention and remediation efforts imperative for two complementary reasons: to promote healthier aging and to reduce the burden on health systems.
研究老年人的医疗保健利用模式,并检验功能下降的影响。
我们使用 SHARE 调查的三个常规波次来估计衰弱对 10 个欧洲国家医疗保健利用的影响。我们控制了衰弱的主要相关因素和未观察到的个体效应。
虚弱的老年人在残疾发生之前增加了他们对初级和医院护理的利用。共病使衰弱对护理利用的影响发生变化。
在大多数国家,衰弱的患病率很高,预计还会增加。这使得衰弱的预防和修复工作势在必行,原因有二:促进更健康的老龄化和减轻卫生系统的负担。