ArticleHealth economics review2017
Health care utilisation amongst older adults with sensory and cognitive impairments in Europe.
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- Effects of physical and psychological multimorbidity on the risk of dementia: multinational prospective cohorts and a meta-analysis.BMC medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Language, literacy, and sensory impairments and missing cognitive test scores in the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2025Article
- Examining the magnitude of inequality and inequity in use of healthcare resources among older Australians with cognitive decline.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- A Meta-analysis of Loneliness and Risk of Dementia using Longitudinal Data from >600,000 Individuals.Nature. Mental health · 2024Article
- The Longitudinal Association between Co-Residential Care Provision and Healthcare Use among the Portuguese Population Aged 50 and Over: A SHARE Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Association Between Neuroticism and Dementia on Healthcare Use: A Multi-Level Analysis Across 27 Countries from The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2023Article
- Trend and effects of high-deductible health insurance plans in the health care system: financial access problems in management of cognitive impairment.Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy · 2022Article
- Family-Centered Primary Care for Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment.Contemporary family therapy · 2022Article
- Loneliness is associated with risk of cognitive impairment in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2020Article
- Meaning in life and risk of cognitive impairment: A 9-Year prospective study in 14 countries.Archives of gerontology and geriatricsArticle
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Abstract
Worldwide, the high prevalence of multiple chronic conditions amongst older population has led to increased utilisation of health care and rising associated costs, becoming a major public health concern. Hearing, vision and cognitive disorders are common chronic conditions amongst older Europeans and recent studies have documented its high co-occurrence. While it has been shown separately that suffering either mental disorders or sensory (hearing and vision) impairments is associated with higher health care utilisation, the association between health care utilisation and the interaction of these conditions has received little attention in the literature. Therefore, using four waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), this study applies the correlated random effects method to the negative binomial and finite mixture models to analyse the extent to which the interaction of cognitive and sensory impairments is associated with health care use. We found that individuals with cognitive impairment tend to have more hospitalisations. The finite mixture approach indicates a positive association between sensory impairment and the number of hospitalisations amongst low users of health care. Additionally, our findings suggest a positive association between suffering both impairments at the same time and the number of doctor and GP visits.
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