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| Fear of loss of independence and nursing home admission in older Australians | | Author(s) | Susan Quine, Stephen Morrell |
| Journal title | Health and Social Care in the Community, vol 15, no 3, May 2007 |
| Pages | pp 212-220 |
| Source | http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | Independence ; Living in the community ; Attitude ; At risk ; Admission [nursing homes] ; Quantitative studies ; Australia. |
| Annotation | The findings presented here provide quantitative evidence to support policies and expansion of practices that enable older people to remain in the community for as long as possible, rather than enter institutional care prematurely. This is also the first population-based survey that has elicited fears for the future of older Australians. Data were collected through a cross-sectional, population-based telephone interview survey conducted in New South Wales, Australia, from 1999 to 2000. Participants were 8881 randomly selected, community-dwelling older people (aged 65+). Survey weights were used for estimating proportions of all statistical inferences. The prevalence of expressing fears for the future was estimated, and analyses of selected predictors of specific fears for self were conducted by logistic regression modelling, with males and females modelled separately. This paper focuses on two of the reported fears for self-loss of independence and nursing home admission, which have implications for healthcare and service use, and the authors identify the extent of their association with sociodemographic, health and lifestyle factors. Apart from the fear of losing one's physical health, participants' main fear for self was of losing their independence (20.4% of males, 34.5% of females), with a specific fear of nursing home admission (4.9& of males, 9.5% of females). Living alone was significantly associated with fear of loss of independence in females only, and with fear of admission to a nursing home in both males and females. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070514201 A |
| Classmark | C3: K4: DP: CA3: LHB:QKH: 3DQ: 7YA |
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