高龄的长期护理:配偶丧生的对机构护理需求的影响
Chantal Schouwenaar1, Pierre Koning1,2,3, Yvonne Krabbe-Alkemade1
1School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Health economics
|October 13, 2025
概括
丧偶显著增加了对机构长期护理 (LTC) 的需求,特别是对于那些患有精神老年障碍的人来说. 解决这个紧迫的需求后伴侣的损失对于老龄化在现场战略至关重要.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- 全球人口老龄化正在增加对长期护理 (LTC) 和相关成本的需求.
- 主要由配偶提供的非正式照顾正变得越来越重要.
- 了解从寡妇到机构LTC的过渡对于管理公共LTC支出至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查寡妇对出现需要机构长期护理的因果关系.
- 用先进的统计方法分析这种转变的动态.
主要方法:
- 利用最近开发的事件时间模型.
- 这些模型考虑了治疗时间的变化和动态治疗效应.
- 应用因果推断来评估伴侣丧失的影响.
主要成果:
- 发现合作伙伴的丧失显著增加了对机构LTC的需求.
- 这种影响在丧偶三个月后需要1.5个百分点的增加达到顶峰.
- 这种影响在丧偶十个月后减弱并消失.
- 这种影响在患有精神老年障碍的个体,最年长的个体和那些脆弱的人中最为明显.
结论:
- 寡妇是需要机构长期护理的重要触发因素.
- 立即干预对于支持伴侣丧失后的个人至关重要.
- 有效的现场老龄化策略必须解决寡妇后增加的LTC需求.
关键词:
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