Materials
A Prospective Study on Death Factors among Elderly People with Care Needs at a Visiting Nurse Service Station
2006 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 84-91
Details
2006 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 84-91
A prospective study on death factors among elderly people with care needs at a visiting nurse service station.
A prospective study was performed to investigate death factors among care receivers at a visiting nurse service station.
The subjects were 212 care receivers who had written consent at the visiting nurse service station. The prospective study was performed between 2002 and 2004. Death of the subjects was set as the end point of the observation period.
In this prospective study period, there were 48 subjects in the death grou p and there were 164 subjects in the living group. Cox proportional hazard regression model was used to test death factors after adjustment for gender, age, dementia disease, visiting rehabilitation service, and management of home oxygen therapy (HOT) in the contents of nurse care. The rate of death among elderly people with dementia disease was significantly higher than for those without (hazard ratio2.11; 95% Cl1. 03-4.35). The rate of death among elderly people with management of HOT was significantly higher than among those who had not used it (hazard ratio3.54; 95% Cl1. 47-8.55).
These results suggested that significant death factors were the presence of dementia disease and that of management of HOT.
