Clarifying the Actual Situation of Old-Old Adults with Unknown Health Conditions and Those Indifferent to Health Using the National Health Insurance Database (KDB) System
Mio Kitamura, Takaharu Goto, Tetsuo Ichikawa, Yasuhiko Shirayama, Ralf Lobmann · 2024
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Mio Kitamura and co-authors investigate the oldest adults who never see doctors in this 2024 study. Using a national insurance database in a Japanese city, nurses visited people aged seventy-five and over with no exam history. Interviews sorted them into unknown health status and health-indifferent groups.
About half of those interviewed had unknown status, and about a tenth were indifferent to health. The unknown group smoked more and joined community life less than users of a local gathering service. Weight loss and thinking slips ran higher among service users. The authors say database-guided home visits can find and size up this hidden group.
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| CREATOR | Mio Kitamura, Takaharu Goto, Tetsuo Ichikawa, Yasuhiko Shirayama, Ralf Lobmann |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |