Posted on
7 February 2025
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ACHA Professor Adam Gordon played an advisory role in this work from the Karolinksa Institute in Sweden.
It looks at transitions between care settings (for example from home to hospital, or hospital to care home) and how individual risk factors (for example gender or cognition or care setting) affect these.
The paper shows that particular risk factors, for example cognitive impairment, can affect the risk of multiple transitions versus the risk of care home admission differently. Also important was the complex interaction between gender, multimordidity, frailty status, cognition and current living situation and how these influenced multiple transitions.
The work is an important reminder that people move between care settings not just because of health conditions but because of a complex interplay between health conditions, individual circumstances, and how they’re connected to people around them. There are important lessons about the steps that people can take to remain independent in their own homes. The main take-home message is that care systems need to be more nuanced and more individualised if they’re to meet the needs of people living with multiple long-term conditions.
You can read the paper here.
