检查老年人搬迁到住宅护理机构的护理网络特征
Natasha Nemmers1, Wenhua Lai1, Sophia Tsuker1
1Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Innovation in aging
|October 24, 2024
概括
拥有更大的护理网络和共享医疗任务的老年人面临更高的转移到住院护理的风险. 没有配偶或孩子会增加这种风险,这凸显了护理网络结构对于老龄化在现场的重要性.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 卫生社会学 卫生社会学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 现场老龄化给老年人带来了挑战,他们的护理需求日益增加,支持有限.
- 现有的研究往往忽视了护理网络在住院护理过渡中的作用.
- 本研究探讨了护理网络特征如何影响老年人过渡到住院护理的决定.
研究的目的:
- 检查护理网络组成和规模之间的关联以及老年人过渡到住院护理的风险.
- 在护理网络中确定与搬迁风险增加或减少相关的特定类型的共享任务.
- 探索网络通用医生对专家的影响以及近亲成员在住院护理过渡中的存在.
主要方法:
- 利用了2011-2019年国家健康和衰老趋势研究 (N = 7,085) 的数据.
- 采用竞争风险回归模型来考虑死亡率,分析过渡到住院护理.
- 评估网络特征,包括组成,规模,共享任务和通用医生/专家的数量,控制单个因素.
主要成果:
- 分享医疗任务的护理网络显示,过渡到住院护理的风险最高,其次是共享家庭任务的护理网络.
- 分享流动性,自我照顾和运输责任与较低的过渡风险有关.
- 更大的网络和更多的通用主义者增加了搬迁风险,而配偶的存在是保护性的.
结论:
- 护理网络的特点是老年人老龄化能力的关键决定因素.
- 拥有更大的网络,没有配偶或子女支持的老年人,以及复杂的护理需求,面临更高的搬迁风险.
- 了解护理网络动态可以为支持现场衰老的干预措施提供信息,并可能推迟或防止住院护理的移动.
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