Effect of Housing Type and Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Indicators on Survival After Low Falls in Older Adults

​Falls result in significant morbidity and mortality among older adults and are a concern in ageing populations. There has been evidence that socioeconomic status (SES) predicts postfall outcome; worse postfall survival has been associated with lower education, lower income, and neighbourhood deprivation. As a small urbanized country, we were interested to evaluate if SES, at both individual and neighbourhood levels, was similarly associated with postfall survival in the older adults of our population. We analyzed a nationally representative retrospective cohort from the Singapore National Trauma Registry (NTR) matched to the death registry.

SOURCE:
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2018.12.016

AUTHOR(S):
Wycliffe E. Wei, Wong Chek Hooi, David B Matchar, Arul Earnest, Wah Win, Marcus Ong Eng Hock, Wong Ting Hway