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Improving Prediction of Risk of Admission to Long-Term Care or Mortality Among Home Care Users With IDD

Published: December 4, 2018
Category: noterms > Documents
Authors: Elizabeth Stankiewicz MSc, Hélène Ouellette-Kuntz PhD, Lynn Martin PhD, Michael McIsaac PhD
Countries: Canada
Language: English
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Settings: Academic, Government, Health Plan, Hospital, Specialist

ABSTRACT

Background
Frailty is an established predictor of admission into long-term care (LTC) and mortality in the elderly population. Assessment of frailty among adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) using a generic frailty marker may not be as predictive, as some lifelong disabilities associated with IDD may be interpreted as a sign of frailty. This study set out to determine if adding the Home Care-Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Frailty Index (HC-IDD Frailty Index), developed for use in home care users with IDD, to a basic list of predictors (age, sex, rural status, and the Johns Hopkins Frailty Marker) increases the ability to predict admission to long-term care or death within one year.

Methods
A retrospective cohort study was conducted using Residential Assessment Instrument for Home Care (RAI-HC) data for adult home care users with IDD who had a home care assessment between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2013 (N = 6,169).

Results
The HC-IDD Frailty Index was found to significantly improve prediction of transitions into LTC or death by explaining an additional 5.95% of the variance in such transitions among home care users with IDD (p value < .0001).

Conclusions
We recommend the use of the HC-IDD Frailty Index in care planning and in further research related to the effectiveness of interventions to reduce or delay adverse age-related outcomes among adults with IDD.

 

intellectual disability,developmental disability,frailty,mortality,long-term care,home care,aging

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