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3. Resident and facility characteristics associated with care-need level deterioration in long-term care welfare facilities in Japan

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Jin, Xueying, Tamiya, Nanako, Jeon, Boyoung, Kawamura, Akira, Takahashi, Hideto, and Noguchi, Haruko

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Aim To determine the resident and facility characteristics associated with residents’ care‐need level deterioration in long‐term care welfare facilities in Japan. Methods A nationally representative sample of 358 886 residents who lived in 3774 long‐term care welfare facilities for at least 1 year from October 2012 was obtained from long‐term care insurance claims data. Facility characteristics were linked with a survey of institutions and establishments for long‐term care in 2012. We used a multilevel logistic regression according to the inclusion and exclusion of lost to follow‐up to define the resident and facility characteristics associated with resident care‐need level deteriorations (lost to follow‐up: the majority were hospitalized residents or had died; were treated as deterioration in the including loss to follow‐up model). Results Adjusting for the covariates, at the resident level, older age and lower care‐need level at baseline were more likely to show deterioration in the care‐need level. At the facility level, metropolitan facilities, unit model (all private room settings) and mixed‐model facilities (partly private room settings) were less likely to experience care‐need level deterioration. A higher proportion of registered nurses among all nurses was negatively related to care‐need level deterioration only in the model including lost to follow‐up. A higher proportion of registered dietitians among all dietitians and the facilities in business for fewer years were negatively associated with care‐need level deterioration only in the model excluding lost to follow‐up. Conclusions The present study could help identify residents who are at risk of care‐need level deterioration, and could contribute to improvements in provider quality performance and enhance competence in the market. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2018; 18: 758–766.

Published
2018

6. Age and sex differences of risk factors of activity limitations in Japanese older adults.

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Monma, Takafumi, Takeda, Fumi, Noguchi, Haruko, and Tamiya, Nanako

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LIFE skills, AGE distribution, BACKACHE, CARDIOVASCULAR diseases, COMMUNICABLE diseases, MENTAL health, MUSCULOSKELETAL system diseases, PATIENTS, SEX distribution, STATISTICS, ACTIVITIES of daily living, MULTIPLE regression analysis, SECONDARY analysis, CROSS-sectional method, DESCRIPTIVE statistics, ODDS ratio, DISEASE complications, OLD age, PSYCHOLOGY, DISEASE risk factors
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Aim The objective of the present study was to verify how socioeconomic and physical/mental health status would be associated with activity limitations by age and sex among older adults, using nationally representative cross-sectional data in Japan. Methods The present study focused on 8373 older adults aged 65 years or older extracted from the Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions conducted in 2007 by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Univariate and multiple logistic regression analyses and population-attributable risk were applied to validate the relationships of socioeconomic and physical/mental health status with activity limitations among the total population, and by age groups (young-old or old-old) and sex. Results Mental health showed the highest odds ratio and population-attributable risk in the total population. In addition, low back pain was associated with activity limitations regardless of age and sex. Other musculoskeletal diseases, such as arthropathy and osteoporosis, were related to activity limitations for women, regardless of age, whereas cardiovascular diseases, including angina pectoris/myocardial infarction and cerebral stroke, were associated with activity limitations for men in any age group. There were no statistically significant correlations between socioeconomic status and activity limitations in any groups. Conclusion Mental health was the most important factor of activity limitations in Japanese older adults. Furthermore, low back pain regardless of age and sex, other musculoskeletal diseases only for women and cardiovascular diseases mainly for men could also be significant risk factors to activity limitations. Therefore, preventive approaches of activity limitations considering sex differences are important for older adults in Japan. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2015; ●●: ●●-●●. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2016
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