%0 Journal Article
%T Improving Prediction of Risk of Admission to Long-Term Care or Mortality Among Home Care Users With IDD
%A Elizabeth Stankiewicz
%A H¨¦l¨¨ne Ouellette-Kuntz
%A Lynn Martin
%A Michael McIsaac
%J Archive of "Canadian Geriatrics Journal".
%D 2018
%R 10.5770/cgj.21.319
%X Frailty is an established predictor of admission into long-term care (LTC) and mortality in the elderly population. Assessment of frailty among adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) using a generic frailty marker may not be as predictive, as some lifelong disabilities associated with IDD may be interpreted as a sign of frailty. This study set out to determine if adding the Home Care-Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Frailty Index (HC-IDD Frailty Index), developed for use in home care users with IDD, to a basic list of predictors (age, sex, rural status, and the Johns Hopkins Frailty Marker) increases the ability to predict admission to long-term care or death within one year
%K intellectual disability
%K developmental disability
%K frailty
%K mortality
%K long-term care
%K home care
%K aging
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6281379/