Health status transitions in community-living elderly with complex care needs: a latent class approach
Open Access
- 3 February 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Geriatrics
- Vol. 9 (1) , 6
Abstract
For older persons with complex care needs, accounting for the variability and interdependency in how health dimensions manifest themselves is necessary to understand the dynamic of health status. Our objective is to test the hypothesis that a latent classification can capture this heterogeneity in a population of frail elderly persons living in the community. Based on a person-centered approach, the classification corresponds to substantively meaningful groups of individuals who present with a comparable constellation of health problems.Keywords
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