ArticleBMC geriatrics2017
The impact of frailty on healthcare utilisation in Ireland: evidence from the Irish longitudinal study on ageing.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Integrated Approach to Patient and Family Engagement for Advance Care Planning for Vulnerable Older Adult Within an Accountable Care Organization (ACO)
Integrated Care with GP Participation for Older Persons in the Ambulatory Care Hub: a Prospective Cohort Study of Clinical and Process Outcomes.
Who cites it
60 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 125 citations in OpenAlex.
- The impact of integrated care on quality of life in community-dwelling older adults with frailty: A systematic review and mixed method synthesis.The Journal of frailty & aging · 2026Pooled it
- Early supported discharge for older adults admitted to hospital after orthopaedic surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC geriatrics · 2024Pooled it
- Primary care interventions to address physical frailty among community-dwelling adults aged 60 years or older: A meta-analysis.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
- Does the Impact of Intensive Lifestyle Intervention on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Vary According to Frailty as Measured via Deficit Accumulation?The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2021Trial
- Health Care-Related Determinants of First-Time Long-Term Care Need in Older Adults in Germany: Retrospective Cohort Study Using Claims Data.Interactive journal of medical research · 2026Article
- The effect of digital health interventions in older adults with frailty: a systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2026Review
- The effect of frailty on hospitalisation trajectories in adults aged 65 and older across 10 European countries: a 14-year longitudinal analysis from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).European journal of ageing · 2026Article
- Societal cost of frailty in Singapore: an overview to the cost of healthcare and informal caregiving for frail older adults by frailty status, a cross-sectional study.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Frailty as a Key Determinant of In-Hospital Mortality in 58,040 Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Evidence from a Chilean Cohort.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Responses to active stand test predict 12-year incident cardiovascular disease and mortality.Communications medicine · 2025Article
- Wish to die and healthcare use in older people: cross-sectional findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA).Journal of public health (Berlin, Germany) · 2025Article
- Practical Considerations in the Management of Frail Older People with Diabetes.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Conference Abstracts "Bridges in Rehabilitation" of the 2Journal of frailty, sarcopenia and falls · 2025Article
- Frailty Focus: Empowering Rural Health With Advanced Nurse Practitioners: A Discussion Paper.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2025Article
- Modified Hospital Frailty Risk Score (mHFRS) as a Tool to Identify and Predict Outcomes for Hospitalised Older Adults at Risk of Frailty.Journal of frailty, sarcopenia and falls · 2024Article
- Multidisciplinary Inpatient Community Rehabilitation Programmes for Frail Older People: A Scoping Review.Nursing open · 2024Article
- The impact of frailty on the use of social services, medication and mortality risk: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Frailty on the island of Ireland: evidence from the NICOLA and TILDA studies.European journal of public health · 2024Article
- The lived experience of frailty: beyond classification and towards a holistic understanding of health.European geriatric medicine · 2024Article
- Validation of the Hospital Frailty Risk Score in older adults hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia.Geriatrics & gerontology international · 2024Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
introductionTo examine the impact of frailty on medical and social care utilisation among the Irish community-dwelling older population to inform strategies of integrated care for older people with complex needs.
methodsParticipants aged ≥65 years from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) representative of the Irish community-dwelling older population were analysed (n = 3507). The frailty index was used to examine patterns of utilisation across medical and social care services. Multivariate logistic and negative binomial regression models were employed to examine the impact of frailty on service utilisation outcomes after controlling for other factors.
resultsThe prevalence of frailty and pre-frailty was 24% (95% CI: 23, 26%) and 45% (95% CI: 43, 47%) respectively. Frailty was a significant predictor of utilisation of most social care and medical care services after controlling for the main correlates of frailty and observed individual effects.
conclusionsFrailty predicts utilisation of many different types of healthcare services rendering it a useful risk stratification tool for targeting strategies of integrated care. The pattern of care is predominantly medical as few of the frail older population use social care prompting questions about sub-groups of the frail older population with unmet care needs.
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