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Changes in hospitalisation rates in older people before and after moving to a retirement village

Changes in hospitalisation rates in older people before and after moving to a retirement village Policy ImpactRelocation to a retirement village results in a non‐sustained reduction in hospitalisations. The retirement village sector and publicly funded health sectors could collaborate in exploring the nature of the factors which have influenced this finding in order to maintain this reduction.Practice ImpactService providers and others working in alternative models of housing for older people could explore the nature of the communal aspects of care within villages that provide these seemingly beneficial effects.INTRODUCTIONPopulations are ageing in high‐income countries. In Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), from 1988 to 2008, the above 85 population of Auckland more than doubled, despite which there was a 29% decrease in long‐term care ([LTC] for those requiring 24‐h care) bed provision for the above 65 years.1 This was probably due in part to (i) current focus on ‘ageing in place’2; (ii) this has, in turn, resulted in LTC entrants being older and more physically dependent than before3; and (iii) enormous growth in the NZ Retirement Village (‘village’) sector with resident numbers rising from almost zero in the 1990s to the point where in 2019 approximately 14% of NZ's above 75 years lived in villages.4Villages, known as continuing care retirement communities elsewhere, are housing communities providing for those who http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australasian Journal on Ageing Wiley

Changes in hospitalisation rates in older people before and after moving to a retirement village

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Wiley
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1440-6381
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1741-6612
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10.1111/ajag.13197
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Policy ImpactRelocation to a retirement village results in a non‐sustained reduction in hospitalisations. The retirement village sector and publicly funded health sectors could collaborate in exploring the nature of the factors which have influenced this finding in order to maintain this reduction.Practice ImpactService providers and others working in alternative models of housing for older people could explore the nature of the communal aspects of care within villages that provide these seemingly beneficial effects.INTRODUCTIONPopulations are ageing in high‐income countries. In Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), from 1988 to 2008, the above 85 population of Auckland more than doubled, despite which there was a 29% decrease in long‐term care ([LTC] for those requiring 24‐h care) bed provision for the above 65 years.1 This was probably due in part to (i) current focus on ‘ageing in place’2; (ii) this has, in turn, resulted in LTC entrants being older and more physically dependent than before3; and (iii) enormous growth in the NZ Retirement Village (‘village’) sector with resident numbers rising from almost zero in the 1990s to the point where in 2019 approximately 14% of NZ's above 75 years lived in villages.4Villages, known as continuing care retirement communities elsewhere, are housing communities providing for those who

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Australasian Journal on Ageing – Wiley

Published: Apr 10, 2023

Keywords: health services for aged; hospitalisation; residential aged care facility; senior housing

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