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ArticleBMC geriatrics2022

Prevalence of sensory impairments in home care and long-term care using interRAI data from across Canada.

Dawn M Guthrie, Nicole Williams, Atul Jaiswal, Paul Mick, Hannah M O'Rourke, M Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, Walter Wittich, Rinku Sutradhar

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Article in BMC geriatrics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Dawn M GuthrieDepartment of Kinesiology & Physical Education, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada. dguthrie@wlu.ca.
Nicole WilliamsDepartment of Kinesiology & Physical Education, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Atul JaiswalSchool of Optometry, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Paul MickDepartment of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Hannah M O'RourkeFaculty of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
M Kathleen Pichora-FullerDepartment of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON, Canada.
Walter WittichSchool of Optometry, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Rinku SutradharInstitute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Université de Montréal · CAUniversity of Toronto · CAWilfrid Laurier University · CAUniversity of Alberta · CAUniversity of Saskatchewan · CA

Funding

CIHR 163902
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundIn the general population, sensory impairments increase markedly with age in adults over 60 years of age. We estimated the prevalence of hearing loss only (HL), vision loss only (VL), and a combined impairment (i.e., dual sensory loss or DSL) in Canadians receiving home care (HC) or long-term care (LTC).

methodsAnnual cross-sectional analyses were conducted using data collected with one of two interRAI assessments, one used for the HC setting (n = 2,667,199), and one for LTC (n = 1,538,691). Items in the assessments were used to measure three mutually exclusive outcomes: prevalence of VL only, HL only, or DSL. Trends over time for each outcome were examined using the Cochran-Armitage trend test. A negative binomial model was used to quantify the trends over time for each outcome while adjusting for age, sex and province.

resultsIn HC, there was a significant trend in the rate for all three outcomes (p < 0.001), with a small increase (roughly 1%) each year. In HC, HL was the most prevalent sensory loss, with a rate of roughly 25% to 29%, while in LTC, DSL was the most prevalent impairment, at roughly 25% across multiple years of data. In both settings, roughly 60% of the sample was female. Males in both HC and LTC had a higher prevalence of HL compared to females, but the differences were very small (no more than 2% in any given year). The prevalence of HL differed by province after adjusting for year, age and sex. Compared to Ontario, Yukon Territory had a 26% higher rate of HL in HC (relative rate [RR] = 1.26; 95% confidence interval [CI]:1.11, 1.43), but LTC residents in Newfoundland and Labrador had a significantly lower rate of HL (RR: 0.57; CI: 0.43, 0.76).When combined, approximately 60% of LTC residents, or HC clients, had at least one sensory impairment.

conclusionsSensory impairments are highly prevalent in both HC and LTC, with small sex-related differences and some variation across Canadian provinces. The interRAI assessments provide clinicians with valuable information to inform care planning and can also be used to estimate the prevalence of these impairments in specific population sub-groups.

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Home Care ServicesLong-Term CareAgedCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMiddle AgedOntarioDual sensory lossHome careinterRAILong-term carePrevalenceSensory impairmentVision loss, hearing loss

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PMID36482317
PMCPMC9733010
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