Ten-Year Trends and Predictors of Unplanned Hospitalisation in Community-Dwelling Older People Receiving Home-Based Care

Table 1

Characteristics of the clients in 170,001 episodes of home-based care, by discharge type, 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2015.

Client attributes	Unplanned hospitalisation		Planned discharge		Total
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Number of episodes	43,608	26	126,393	74	170,001	100
Number of unique clients	27,985		81,016		94,200^†
Age (mean, standard deviation)	81.5 (7.8)		79.8 (7.8)		80.2 (7.8)
Age categories
65–69	3,760	9	15,288	12	19,048	11
70–74	5,226	12	19,256	15	24,482	14
75–79	7,541	17	25,120	20	32,661	19
80–84	10,199	23	29,130	23	39,329	23
85–89	10,154	23	23,790	19	33,944	20
90+	6,728	15	13,809	11	20,537	12
Missing	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gender
Female	23,008	53	71,323	56	94,331	55
Male	20,598	47	55,049	44	75,647	44
Others/not stated	2	0	21	0	23	0
Missing	0	0	0	0	0	0
Living arrangements
Alone	16,741	38	38,961	31	55,702	33
Special purpose accommodation	1,611	4	2,120	2	3,731	2
With family	21,010	48	62,889	50	83,899	49
With others who are not family	989	2	2,319	2	3,308	2
Missing	3,257	7	20,104	16	23,361	14
Index of Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) quintiles
1 (high disadvantage)	7,294	17	23,813	19	31,107	18
2	5,296	12	15,702	12	20,998	12
3	6,893	16	20,537	16	27,430	16
4	10,080	23	30,494	24	40,574	24
5 (low disadvantage)	14,031	32	35,822	28	49,853	29
Missing	14	0	25	0	39	0

^†Of the total number of unique clients, 56,120 (60%) had 1 episode only during the study period; 38,080 people (40%) had multiple episodes; (t-test for independent samples); (chi-square test for independent samples).