Loneliness and emergency and planned hospitalizations in a community sample of older adults

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Gerard J MolloyRonan M Conroy

Abstract

To examine whether loneliness is independently associated with emergency hospitalization and planned hospital inpatient admissions in a population sample of older adults. Nationally representative cross-sectional interviews in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Private homes in the community. Randomly selected older people in the community (aged ≥65, N=2,033). Emergency hospitalization and planned hospital admissions. Eleven percent of the sample had an emergency hospitalization, and 15% had a planned hospital admission. Forty-two percent reported being bothered by loneliness. A higher frequency of loneliness was associated with emergency hospitalization only (odds ratio=1.29, 95% confidence interval=1.08-1.55), and this association was independent of a range of potential confounders in multivariate analysis. In this community-based sample of older adults, greater loneliness was independently associated with emergency hospitalization but not planned inpatient admissions.

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