Table 1 Demography, marital status and morbidity among home care recipients and an age-and-sex matched cohort without home care (N = 272,226), Sweden 2019-20
No home care | Home care (Total) | Home care | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Low amount | Medium amount | High amount | |||
N = 136,113 | N = 136,113 | N = 43,538 | N = 45,705 | N = 46,870 | |
Men (%) | 34.1 | 34.1 | 35.5 | 33.6 | 33.2 |
Age (%) | |||||
70–79 | 25.5 | 25.5 | 27.9 | 26.4 | 25.5 |
80–89 | 49.1 | 49.1 | 51.9 | 48.8 | 46.7 |
90+ | 24.4 | 24.4 | 20.2 | 24.8 | 27.8 |
Home care | |||||
Median hours (IQR) | N/A | 22 (6;53) | 4 (2;6) | 21 (15;29) | 69 (52;97) |
Personal care (%) | N/A | 72.7 | 46.0 | 84.1 | 86.4 |
Instrumental help (%) | N/A | 71.6 | 68.9 | 71.8 | 73.9 |
Safety alarm (%) | 16.9 | 62.1 | 52.5 | 66.3 | 67.0 |
Mortality within 1 year (%) | 4.7 | 13.9 | 8.9 | 13.0 | 19.6 |
Mortality within 2 years (%) | 11.1 | 28.9 | 19.9 | 27.4 | 38.6 |
Cohabiting (%) | 49.8 | 28.3 | 32.5 | 26.6 | 25.8 |
Foreign born (%) | 12.1 | 12.6 | 12.2 | 11.3 | 14.4 |
Gilbert frailty score (%) | |||||
0 | 80.2 | 17.3 | 25.3 | 17.3 | 10.0 |
0.1–4.9 (low) | 14.6 | 37.0 | 43.0 | 38.8 | 29.5 |
5–14.9 (medium) | 4.8 | 36.3 | 27.7 | 36.4 | 44.3 |
15+ (high) | 0.4 | 9.4 | 4.1 | 7.5 | 16.2 |
Disease prevalence (%)I | |||||
Hypertension | 34.1 | 55.2 | 50.6 | 55.4 | 59.4 |
Eye conditions* | 46.8 | 48.3 | 50.0 | 48.5 | 46.6 |
Atrial Fibrillation | 15.0 | 25.8 | 23.0 | 26.1 | 28.0 |
Cerebrovascular Disease | 7.1 | 18.6 | 13.8 | 17.4 | 24.3 |
Diabetes | 9.3 | 19.8 | 17.7 | 19.3 | 22.4 |
Heart Failure | 8.3 | 19.3 | 16.0 | 19.3 | 22.4 |
Solid Neoplasms | 19.7 | 21.6 | 22.0 | 21.9 | 21.0 |
Ischemic Heart Disease | 12.2 | 19.4 | 17.9 | 19.5 | 20.8 |
Colitis and related | 10.4 | 17.3 | 15.2 | 16.8 | 19.6 |
Peripheral Neuropathy | 8.0 | 14.7 | 13.4 | 14.3 | 16.4 |
Osteoarthritis | 11.6 | 13.7 | 14.5 | 13.2 | 13.4 |
COPD | 3.6 | 9.7 | 9.2 | 9.8 | 10.2 |
Dementia | 1.5 | 9.3 | 4.6 | 8.3 | 14.8 |
Other neurological disease† | 2.3 | 8.6 | 5.6 | 7.4 | 12.3 |
Parkinson disease | 0.6 | 3.1 | 1.7 | 2.8 | 4.6 |
Multiple sclerosis | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
Number of chronic conditions‡(N) | |||||
0–1 | 31.2 | 12.9 | 15.9 | 13.2 | 9.8 |
2–4 | 39.8 | 30.8 | 34.2 | 31.2 | 27.1 |
5–9 | 25.6 | 43.0 | 39.8 | 42.9 | 46.0 |
10+ | 3.4 | 13.3 | 9.9 | 12.7 | 17.1 |
Any neurol. disease (%) | 9.5 | 26.1 | 19.3 | 24.5 | 34.0 |
Any neurol. disease§ and dementia (%) | 0.3 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 5.0 |
Hospitalization during follow-up | |||||
Person-years at risk | 231,696 | 207,910 | 74,536 | 70,580 | 62,794 |
Total number of hospitalizations | 96,842 | 181,786 | 52,413 | 62,763 | 66,610 |
Number of hospitalizations per person (%) | |||||
0 | 61.1 | 39.1 | 43.9 | 37.8 | 35.8 |
1 | 21.6 | 27.7 | 26.3 | 27.9 | 28.7 |
2+ | 17.3 | 33.2 | 29.8 | 34.3 | 35.5 |
Incidence per person-year | 0.42 | 0.87 | 0.70 | 0.89 | 1.06 |
Proportion unplanned (%) | 86.9 | 91.0 | 89.5 | 91.2 | 92.1 |