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Emergency admissions of older people to hospital
— a link with material deprivation | | Author(s) | Sylvia Bernard, Lucy K Smith |
| Journal title | Journal of Public Health Medicine, vol 20, no 1, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp 97-101 |
| Keywords | Admission [hospitals] ; At risk ; Poor elderly ; Economic status [elderly] ; Correlation ; Leicestershire. |
| Annotation | In this study, the relationship between emergency medical admissions in Leicestershire, and age, sex, and material deprivation as measured by the Townsend deprivation score was examined. Data from the 1991 Census was used. The Trent Patient Information System gave the number of patients aged 65 and over admitted as medical emergencies to Leicestershire's acute and community hospitals at least once during October 1993-September 1994. There were 13,305 such admissions, 9.9% of over 65s. Unconditional logistic regression showed that the risk of emergency admission increased with age, and was also higher for men than for women; and the risk also increased with increasing deprivation for each age group, most notably in the 65-74 years age group. The increased risk of emergency medical admission to hospital, associated with residence in areas characterised as deprived by Census-based indicators, suggest there are enduring inequalities in health or health care among older people. Inequalities noted for all ages persist into old age, although in the `oldest' age groups, the effect is weaker. Material deprivation may also be a proxy for other factors, such as differences in social support and the type of care received. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980813004 A |
| Classmark | LD:QKH: CA3: F:W6: F:W: 49: 8LE |
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