The Association of Number and Geographic Proximity of Children with Care Home Use Before All-Cause and Dementia Deaths: A Register-Based Study of Finnish Older Adults

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Register-based study reveals caregiving and demographic trends influence care home days in older adults, suggesting limited impact in dementia cases.

Caregiving implications highlight how adult children can impact care home residency days in general, but not in dementia cases.
Compared to parents with two children, those without children had more care home days, influenced by marital and socioeconomic status.
Analysis leveraged Finnish register data and employed Poisson regression models to assess care home usage patterns.
Demographic trends are crucial in understanding caregiving dynamics, particularly how distance impacts care home use.

Korhonen et al. (2025) studied this question.

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Register-based study reveals caregiving and demographic trends influence care home days in older adults, suggesting limited impact in dementia cases.