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Social isolation and loneliness as risk factors for hospital admissions for respiratory disease among older adults.
- Source :
- Thorax; Jul2020, Vol. 75 Issue 7, p597-599, 3p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Rising hospital admissions due to respiratory disease (RD) are a major challenge to hospitals. This study explored modifiable social risk factors among 4478 older adults from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Data were linked with administrative hospital records and mortality registry data (follow-up 9.6 years) and analysed using survival analysis accounting for competing risks. Living alone and social disengagement but not social contact or loneliness were associated with an increased risk of RD admissions, independent of socio-demographic, health and behaviour factors. Providing support for disengaged adults living alone who are at risk of RD admissions should be explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- OLDER people
SOCIAL isolation
HOSPITAL admission & discharge
RESPIRATORY diseases
LIVING alone
TREATMENT of respiratory diseases
RESEARCH
RESEARCH methodology
PATIENTS
DISEASE incidence
PROGNOSIS
EVALUATION research
MEDICAL cooperation
COMPARATIVE studies
AGING
LONELINESS
RESEARCH funding
LONGITUDINAL method
PSYCHOLOGICAL factors
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00406376
- Volume :
- 75
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Thorax
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 144392200
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2019-214445