ArticleMedical care2017
Receipt of Caregiving and Fall Risk in US Community-dwelling Older Adults.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Nebulous Association between Cognitive Impairment and Falls in Older Adults: A Systematic Review of the Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- The Effects of Home Care Provider Mix on the Care Recipient: An International, Systematic Review of Articles from 2000 to 2020.Annual review of public health · 2021Pooled it
- Work-related musculoskeletal injuries in formal caregivers of Portuguese rest home of elderly.Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2025Article
- Care Partners' Engagement in Preventing Falls for Community-Dwelling Older People With Dementia.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
- Medicare's Hospital Readmission Reduction Program reduced fall-related health care use: An unexpected benefit?Health services research · 2024Article
- Impact of Medicare eligibility on informal caregiving for surgery and stroke.Health services research · 2023Article
- Development of a behavioural framework for dementia care partners' fall risk management.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Time to dementia diagnosis by race: A retrospective cohort study.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2022Article
- Patients experience a need for informal care after a fragility fracture.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2022Article
- Unmet family caregiver training needs associated with acute care utilization during home health care.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2021Article
- Receipt of Posthospitalization Care Training Among Medicare Beneficiaries' Family Caregivers.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Underreporting of Fall Injuries of Older Adults: Implications for Wellness Visit Fall Risk Screening.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2018Observational
- Depressive symptomatology and fall risk among community-dwelling older adults.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundFalls and fall-related injuries (FRI) are common and costly occurrences among older adults living in the community, with increased risk for those with physical and cognitive limitations. Caregivers provide support for older adults with physical functioning limitations, which are associated with fall risk.
designUsing the 2004-2012 waves of the Health and Retirement Study, we examined whether receipt of low (0-13 weekly hours) and high levels (≥14 weekly hours) of informal care or any formal care is associated with lower risk of falls and FRIs among community-dwelling older adults. We additionally tested whether serious physical functioning (≥3 activities of daily living) or cognitive limitations moderated this relationship.
resultsCaregiving receipt categories were jointly significant in predicting noninjurious falls (P=0.03) but not FRIs (P=0.30). High levels of informal care category (P=0.001) and formal care (P<0.001) had stronger associations with reduced fall risk relative to low levels of informal care. Among individuals with ≥3 activities of daily living, fall risks were reduced by 21% for those receiving high levels of informal care; additionally, FRIs were reduced by 42% and 58% for those receiving high levels of informal care and any formal care. High levels of informal care receipt were also associated with a 54% FRI risk reduction among the cognitively impaired.
conclusionsFall risk reductions among older adults occurred predominantly among those with significant physical and cognitive limitations. Accordingly, policy efforts involving fall prevention should target populations with increased physical functioning and cognitive limitations. They should also reduce financial barriers to informal and formal caregiving.
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