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15158584

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-5-25
pubmed:abstractText
People live longer than ever before, and the rapidly growing population of the oldest-old are increasingly frequent users of health care services. To determine the extent and causes of hospital care in the population aged 90, we examined the hospital discharge registers for the annual cohorts of Tampere residents born in 1907-1910 at age 90. The basic population consisted of 1077 people, 20.6% of who were men and 79.4% women. Close on one-fifth or 18.7% of this group died during the year under review. During this year, 43.2% of men and 50.3% of women had been admitted to hospital. Men spent significantly fewer days in hospital than women: the mean length of stay for men was 19 days, for women 46 days. Of the 90-year olds, 6.7% were permanently staying in hospitals. The most common diagnoses at discharge were cardiovascular diseases, infections, psychiatric diseases including dementia, and trauma. Of those who had been admitted to hospital once or more within the year, 31.7% died during the follow-up time, while the figure for those not admitted was only 6.2%. People aged 90 are an important group of hospital users. In the future, hospitals need to be prepared to provide adequate care for the most common diseases affecting the growing population of the oldest-old.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0167-4943
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2004 Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
39
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
93-102
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Use of hospitals at age 90. A population-based study.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical School, University of Tampere, Bldg. B, FIN-33014 Tampere, Finland. sirkka.goebeler@uta.fi
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article