Family Caregiver Factors Associated With Emergency Department Utilization Among Community-Living Older Adults With Disabilities

• Main Authors: Julia Burgdorf (Author), John Mulcahy (Author), Halima Amjad (Author), Judith D. Kasper (Author), Kenneth Covinsky (Author), Jennifer L. Wolff (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Older adults with disability are frequent users of the emergency department (ED) and often rely on family caregiver support. We identify whether and which caregiver characteristics are associated with older adults' ED use. Methods: We use Cox proportional hazards regression to model...