Morbidity and hospitalisations among older adults with home care – a nationwide register study
Katharina Schmidt-Mende,
Cecilia Arvinge,
Giovanni Cioffi
et al.
Abstract:Background: Older adults with home care have potentially complex disease patterns and extensive use of health care. Increased understanding is necessary to tailor their social and medical care. To our knowledge, this is the first study to describe patterns of morbidity and hospitalisations among community-dwelling older home care clients nation-wide and in subgroups defined by age, sex, and amount of home care.
Methods: Nationwide register-based cohort study in community-dwelling adults aged 70 and older recei… Show more
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