FALL ENCOUNTERS AMONG OLDER ADULTS: IMPACT OF COVID-19
Helen Lach, Joanne salas · 2023
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Helen Lach and Joanne Salas (2023) ask whether the COVID-19 pandemic changed how often older adults were treated for falls. Lockdowns cut activity and routine clinical care, and many suspected that deconditioned older people would fall more. The authors use de-identified medical records from a large multi-state Midwest health system. They count falls that brought adults aged fifty and older to emergency, urgent, or hospital care, from April 2019 through September 2022.
The overall fall rate after the pandemic began was significantly higher than before, 11.59 against 11.20 in the reported units, with narrow confidence intervals. White patients showed a significantly higher post-pandemic rate. Yet the size of the change did not differ by age group, gender, or race. It did vary by neighborhood socioeconomic status. The study maps where the pandemic's fall burden landed hardest within one big care system.
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| CREATOR | Helen Lach, Joanne salas |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |