ArticleAging clinical and experimental research2020
Living alone vs. living with someone as a predictor of mortality after a bone fracture in older age.
Article in Aging clinical and experimental research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
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.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Loneliness, social isolation, and living alone: a comprehensive systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression of mortality risks in older adults.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2025Pooled it
- Determinants of mobility in community-dwelling older adults: a network analysis before, during, and two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025Article
- General self-efficacy, not musculoskeletal health, was associated with social isolation and loneliness in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2024Article
- Associations between living alone, social interactions, and physical performance differ by sex: Results from the Baltimore Hip Studies.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023Article
- The experience of living alone as an older woman in the UK during the Covid pandemic: an interpretative phenomenological analysis.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Living alone and all-cause mortality in community-dwelling older adults: The moderating role of perceived neighborhood cohesion.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Older Women Living Alone in the UK: Does Their Health and Wellbeing Differ from Those Who Cohabit?Journal of population ageing · 2023Article
- Perspectives on the popularization of smart senior care to meet the demands of older adults living alone in communities of Southwest China: A qualitative study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Effect of living arrangements on cognitive function in Chinese elders: a longitudinal observational study.BMJ open · 2022Observational
- Socio-economic status and 1 year mortality among patients hospitalized for heart failure in China.ESC heart failure · 2022Article
- Maintenance of high quality of life as an indicator of resilience during COVID-19 social distancing among community-dwelling older adults in Finland.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Relationships between non-communicable disease, social isolation and frailty in community dwelling adults in later life: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundLiving alone is a risk factor for health decline in old age, especially when facing adverse events increasing vulnerability.
aimWe examined whether living alone is associated with higher post-fracture mortality risk.
methodsParticipants were 190 men and 409 women aged 75 or 80 years at baseline. Subsequent fracture incidence and mortality were followed up for 15 years. Extended Cox regression analysis was used to compare the associations between living arrangements and mortality risk during the first post-fracture year and during the non-fracture time. All participants contributed to the non-fracture state until a fracture occurred or until death/end of follow-up if they did not sustain a fracture. Participants who sustained a fracture during the follow-up returned to the non-fracture state 1 year after the fracture unless they died or were censored due to end of follow-up.
resultsAltogether, 22% of men and 40% of women sustained a fracture. During the first post-fracture year, mortality risk was over threefold compared to non-fracture time but did not differ by living arrangement. In women, living alone was associated with lower mortality risk during non-fracture time, but the association attenuated after adjustment for self-rated health. In men, living alone was associated with increased mortality risk during non-fracture time, although not significantly.
conclusionThe results suggest that living alone is not associated with pronounced mortality risk after a fracture compared to living with someone.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.