Does Living Alone Confer a Higher Risk of Hospitalisation?

Autor:	Chunzhou Mu, Jane Hall, Milica Kecmanovic
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics business.industry Separation (statistics) Elderly people Medicine Percentage point business Demography
Zdroj:	Economic Record. 91:124-138
ISSN:	0013-0249
DOI:	10.1111/1475-4932.12184
Popis:	The rise in one-person households is a worldwide trend. This means that informal care is less available, particularly for elderly people, with important implications for health-care utilisation and health expenditure. This paper uses a two-part model to examine the relationship between living alone and hospitalisations in Australia in terms of both the likelihood and the length of hospitalisation. The results show living alone increases the probability of hospitalisation by 2.9 percentage points and length of stay by 3.8 days for people aged 45 and above. Further analysis indicates that these impacts depend on the length of living alone. Additionally, the probability and the length of hospitalisation vary depending on whether the cause of living alone is separation/divorce, widowhood or never having married.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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