TY - JOUR
T1 - Activities of daily living in nursing home and home care settings
T2 - A retrospective 1-year cohort study
AU - Lee, Tae Wha
AU - Cho, Eunhee
AU - Yim, Eun Shil
AU - Lee, Hye Sun
AU - Ko, Yu Kyung
AU - Kim, Bok Nam
AU - Kim, Sinhye
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
PY - 2015/2/1
Y1 - 2015/2/1
N2 - Objective: Korea introduced universal long-term care insurance (LTCI) for physically dependent older adults in 2008. Older adults, their family members, and policy makers in Korea want to know patient outcomes indifferent care modalities because older adults who have a similar functional status and LTC needs canchoose either nursing home care or home care. The aim of this study was to compare activities of daily living (ADLs) in nursing home care and home care settings for physically dependent older adults in Korea. Design: A retrospective 1-year cohort study using national LTCI data. Settings: This study used the LTCI dataset from the National Health Insurance Service in Korea. Participants: Participants were identified from among those in the LTCI dataset who enrolled from July 2008 to June 2010. We extracted a sample consisting of 22,557 older adults who consistently received either nursing home care (n=11,678) or home care (n=10,879) for 1year. Measurements: The outcome variable was change in ADLs after 1year. Covariates were an older adult's home geographical region, LTC level, age, sex, primary caregiver, Medicaid beneficiary status, bedridden status, medical diagnosis, baseline ADLs, cognitive function, behavioral problems, nursing and special treatment, and rehabilitation needs. Multiple regression analysis of all participants unmatched and a paired t-test with a propensity-score-matched cohort were performed to explain the association of changes in ADLs with the types of LTC. Results: Multiple regression analysis with all participants (n=22,557) unmatched showed that compared with older adults who received home care, those who received nursing home care had deteriorated further in terms of ADLs after 1year (β=0.44108, P<.0001). After propensity-score matching, paired t-test analysis also found that the ADLs of older adults had deteriorated less in the home care group compared with the nursing home group after 1year (P<.0001). Conclusions: The ADLs of older adults who received home care showed significantly less deterioration than those of the older adults in nursing home care after 1year. The ADLs of older adults could differ according to the type of LTC they receive, and home care could result in better maintenance of ADLs than nursing home care.
AB - Objective: Korea introduced universal long-term care insurance (LTCI) for physically dependent older adults in 2008. Older adults, their family members, and policy makers in Korea want to know patient outcomes indifferent care modalities because older adults who have a similar functional status and LTC needs canchoose either nursing home care or home care. The aim of this study was to compare activities of daily living (ADLs) in nursing home care and home care settings for physically dependent older adults in Korea. Design: A retrospective 1-year cohort study using national LTCI data. Settings: This study used the LTCI dataset from the National Health Insurance Service in Korea. Participants: Participants were identified from among those in the LTCI dataset who enrolled from July 2008 to June 2010. We extracted a sample consisting of 22,557 older adults who consistently received either nursing home care (n=11,678) or home care (n=10,879) for 1year. Measurements: The outcome variable was change in ADLs after 1year. Covariates were an older adult's home geographical region, LTC level, age, sex, primary caregiver, Medicaid beneficiary status, bedridden status, medical diagnosis, baseline ADLs, cognitive function, behavioral problems, nursing and special treatment, and rehabilitation needs. Multiple regression analysis of all participants unmatched and a paired t-test with a propensity-score-matched cohort were performed to explain the association of changes in ADLs with the types of LTC. Results: Multiple regression analysis with all participants (n=22,557) unmatched showed that compared with older adults who received home care, those who received nursing home care had deteriorated further in terms of ADLs after 1year (β=0.44108, P<.0001). After propensity-score matching, paired t-test analysis also found that the ADLs of older adults had deteriorated less in the home care group compared with the nursing home group after 1year (P<.0001). Conclusions: The ADLs of older adults who received home care showed significantly less deterioration than those of the older adults in nursing home care after 1year. The ADLs of older adults could differ according to the type of LTC they receive, and home care could result in better maintenance of ADLs than nursing home care.
KW - Activities of daily living
KW - Home care services
KW - Korea
KW - Long-term care
KW - Nursing homes
KW - Older adults
KW - Outcomes
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jamda.2014.07.013
DO - 10.1016/j.jamda.2014.07.013
M3 - Article
C2 - 25244958
AN - SCOPUS:84921672826
SN - 1525-8610
VL - 16
SP - 114
EP - 119
JO - Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
JF - Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
IS - 2
ER -
