Living alone and mortality among older people in Västerbotten County in Sweden: a survey and register-based longitudinal study
BACKGROUND: Living alone is increasingly common and has been depicted as an important cause of mortality. We examined the association between living alone and mortality risks among older men and women in northern Sweden, by linking two unique longitudinal datasets. METHODS: We used the Linnaeus data...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6945693 2023-05-15T17:44:53+02:00 Living alone and mortality among older people in Västerbotten County in Sweden: a survey and register-based longitudinal study Ng, Nawi Santosa, Ailiana Weinehall, Lars Malmberg, Gunnar 2020-01-06 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6945693/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31906868 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1330-9 en eng BioMed Central http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6945693/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31906868 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1330-9 © The Author(s). 2020 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. CC0 PDM CC-BY Research Article Text 2020 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1330-9 2020-01-12T01:33:39Z BACKGROUND: Living alone is increasingly common and has been depicted as an important cause of mortality. We examined the association between living alone and mortality risks among older men and women in northern Sweden, by linking two unique longitudinal datasets. METHODS: We used the Linnaeus database, which links several population registers on socioeconomic and health. This register-based study included 22,226 men and 23,390 women aged 50 and 60 years in Västerbotten County who had participated in the Västerbotten Intervention Program (VIP) during 1990–2006, with a total of 445,823 person-years of observation. We conducted Cox-proportional hazard regression to assess the risk of living alone on the mortality that was observed between 1990 and 2015, controlling for socio-demographic factors, chronic disease risk factors and access to social capital. RESULTS: Older men and women who lived alone with no children at home were at a significantly higher risk of death compared to married/cohabiting couples with children at home (with an adjusted hazard ratio of 1.38, 95% CI of 1.26–1.50 in men and 1.27, 95% CI of 1.13–1.42 in women). Living alone was an even stronger factor than the well-established chronic disease risk factors and a lack of access to social capital. CONCLUSIONS: A significant association between living alone and mortality among the older adult population in Sweden was observed. Providing good social support for older people is important in preventing the negative health impact of living alone. Text Northern Sweden PubMed Central (PMC) BMC Geriatrics 20 1 |
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BACKGROUND: Living alone is increasingly common and has been depicted as an important cause of mortality. We examined the association between living alone and mortality risks among older men and women in northern Sweden, by linking two unique longitudinal datasets. METHODS: We used the Linnaeus database, which links several population registers on socioeconomic and health. This register-based study included 22,226 men and 23,390 women aged 50 and 60 years in Västerbotten County who had participated in the Västerbotten Intervention Program (VIP) during 1990–2006, with a total of 445,823 person-years of observation. We conducted Cox-proportional hazard regression to assess the risk of living alone on the mortality that was observed between 1990 and 2015, controlling for socio-demographic factors, chronic disease risk factors and access to social capital. RESULTS: Older men and women who lived alone with no children at home were at a significantly higher risk of death compared to married/cohabiting couples with children at home (with an adjusted hazard ratio of 1.38, 95% CI of 1.26–1.50 in men and 1.27, 95% CI of 1.13–1.42 in women). Living alone was an even stronger factor than the well-established chronic disease risk factors and a lack of access to social capital. CONCLUSIONS: A significant association between living alone and mortality among the older adult population in Sweden was observed. Providing good social support for older people is important in preventing the negative health impact of living alone. |
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Living alone and mortality among older people in Västerbotten County in Sweden: a survey and register-based longitudinal study |
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Living alone and mortality among older people in Västerbotten County in Sweden: a survey and register-based longitudinal study |
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Living alone and mortality among older people in Västerbotten County in Sweden: a survey and register-based longitudinal study |
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Living alone and mortality among older people in Västerbotten County in Sweden: a survey and register-based longitudinal study |
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Living alone and mortality among older people in Västerbotten County in Sweden: a survey and register-based longitudinal study |
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living alone and mortality among older people in västerbotten county in sweden: a survey and register-based longitudinal study |
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