Mortality in long-term care residents: retrospective national cohort study
Jane MacRae, Giorgio Ciminata, Claudia Geue, Ellen Lynch, Susan D Shenkin, Terence J Quinn, Jennifer Kirsty Burton · 2024
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Description
Jane MacRae and six co-authors present a national cohort study, published in 2025, on death among people who move into long-term care homes in Scotland. Linked health and social care records followed nearly twenty-four thousand new residents from 2013 to 2016. By 2020, about eighty-five percent had died. Most deaths, over three quarters, happened in the care home itself, while a fifth occurred in hospital.
Dementia was the leading cause, named in over a third of deaths. A quarter of residents died within a year of moving in, and median survival was about twenty-three months. People admitted from hospital died sooner than those arriving from the community, with median survival of twenty-three against thirty-two months. The authors say the patterns reveal chances to improve support around admission and end of life. The study gives planners rare long-term numbers on care home mortality.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jane MacRae, Giorgio Ciminata, Claudia Geue, Ellen Lynch, Susan D Shenkin, Terence J Quinn, Jennifer Kirsty Burton |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |