Characteristics of long stay home care clients’ acute care use who live with frailty in Alberta, Canada: A retrospective cohort study
Jananee Rasiah, Andrea Gruneir, Jeffrey Poss, Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, Greta G. Cummings · 2026
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Jananee Rasiah and colleagues profile hospital use by frail home care clients in Alberta, Canada, in this 2026 study. Older adults receiving long-term home care often live with frailty, a state of low reserve that turns small upsets into hospital trips.
The cohort held 10,107 people aged 65 to 104 followed from 2015 to 2017. Most were women, and the biggest group was aged 75 to 84. Arthritis and high blood pressure were the most common conditions among frail clients. About four in ten frail clients visited emergency departments one to three times, and hospital stays averaged about 17 days. Being pre-frail or frail raised the odds of hospital admission.
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| CREATOR | Jananee Rasiah, Andrea Gruneir, Jeffrey Poss, Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, Greta G. Cummings |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37599 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |