Falls and long-term survival among older adults residing in care homes.
<h4>Objectives</h4>To assess the association between having suffered a fall in the month prior to interview and long-term overall survival in nursing-home residents.<h4>Methods</h4>Retrospective cohort study conducting an overall survival follow-up of 689 representative nursi...
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| author | Alicia Padrón-Monedero Roberto Pastor-Barriuso Fernando J García López Pablo Martínez Martín Javier Damián |
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| description | <h4>Objectives</h4>To assess the association between having suffered a fall in the month prior to interview and long-term overall survival in nursing-home residents.<h4>Methods</h4>Retrospective cohort study conducting an overall survival follow-up of 689 representative nursing-home residents from Madrid, Spain. Residents lived in three types of facilities: public, subsidized and private and its information was collected by interviewing the residents, caregivers and/or facility physicians. Residents contributed to follow-up time from their baseline interviews until death or being censored at the end of the 5-year follow-up period. The association between suffering a fall during the month prior to interview and long-term overall survival was analyzed using Cox proportional hazards models. To adjust for potential confounders we used progressive adjusted models. We then repeated the analyses with severity of the fall (no fall, non-severe, severe) as the main independent variable.<h4>Results</h4>After a 2408 person-year follow-up (median 4.5 years), 372 participants had died. In fully-adjusted models, residents who had suffered any kind of fall in the previous month showed virtually the same survival rates compared to non-fallers (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.03; 95% CI = 0.75-1.40). There was a weak graded relationship between increased fall severity and survival rates for the non-severe fall group (HR = 0.92; 95% CI = 0.58-1.45) and the severe fall group (HR = 1.36; 95% CI = 0.73-2.53) compared with residents who had not suffered any kind of fall. The hazard ratios for severe falls were higher in men, residents with less comorbidity, fewer medications, and those functionally independent.<h4>Conclusion</h4>We found no associations between having suffered a fall in the month prior to interview and long-term survival; neither did we find a marked association when severity of fall was accounted for in the whole population. In some subgroups, however, the results merit further scrutiny. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-385be48de1d84fbebe5f7ccdb84a5ae42025-08-20T02:55:17ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032020-01-01155e023161810.1371/journal.pone.0231618Falls and long-term survival among older adults residing in care homes.Alicia Padrón-MonederoRoberto Pastor-BarriusoFernando J García LópezPablo Martínez MartínJavier Damián<h4>Objectives</h4>To assess the association between having suffered a fall in the month prior to interview and long-term overall survival in nursing-home residents.<h4>Methods</h4>Retrospective cohort study conducting an overall survival follow-up of 689 representative nursing-home residents from Madrid, Spain. Residents lived in three types of facilities: public, subsidized and private and its information was collected by interviewing the residents, caregivers and/or facility physicians. Residents contributed to follow-up time from their baseline interviews until death or being censored at the end of the 5-year follow-up period. The association between suffering a fall during the month prior to interview and long-term overall survival was analyzed using Cox proportional hazards models. To adjust for potential confounders we used progressive adjusted models. We then repeated the analyses with severity of the fall (no fall, non-severe, severe) as the main independent variable.<h4>Results</h4>After a 2408 person-year follow-up (median 4.5 years), 372 participants had died. In fully-adjusted models, residents who had suffered any kind of fall in the previous month showed virtually the same survival rates compared to non-fallers (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.03; 95% CI = 0.75-1.40). There was a weak graded relationship between increased fall severity and survival rates for the non-severe fall group (HR = 0.92; 95% CI = 0.58-1.45) and the severe fall group (HR = 1.36; 95% CI = 0.73-2.53) compared with residents who had not suffered any kind of fall. The hazard ratios for severe falls were higher in men, residents with less comorbidity, fewer medications, and those functionally independent.<h4>Conclusion</h4>We found no associations between having suffered a fall in the month prior to interview and long-term survival; neither did we find a marked association when severity of fall was accounted for in the whole population. In some subgroups, however, the results merit further scrutiny.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0231618&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Alicia Padrón-Monedero Roberto Pastor-Barriuso Fernando J García López Pablo Martínez Martín Javier Damián Falls and long-term survival among older adults residing in care homes. PLoS ONE |
| title | Falls and long-term survival among older adults residing in care homes. |
| title_full | Falls and long-term survival among older adults residing in care homes. |
| title_fullStr | Falls and long-term survival among older adults residing in care homes. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Falls and long-term survival among older adults residing in care homes. |
| title_short | Falls and long-term survival among older adults residing in care homes. |
| title_sort | falls and long term survival among older adults residing in care homes |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0231618&type=printable |
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