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The thinner elderly people are, the more they'll live!
A new study involving an Indian-origin researcher has suggested that elderly people must maintain a normal weight to expand their life expectancy.
Research from Adventist Health Studies found that men over 75 with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 22.3 had a 3.7-year shorter life expectancy than their thinner counterparts. Meanwhile, women over 75, with a BMI greater than 27.4, had a 2.1-year shorter life expectancy.
“We had a unique opportunity to do 29 years of follow-up with a cohort that was also followed for mortality outcomes,” said Pramil N. Singh, DrPH, lead author of the paper and an associate professor in the School of Public Health at Loma Linda University.
“Across this long period of time, we had multiple measures of body weight, which provided a more accurate assessment.
“When you control for confounding by disease-related weight loss, overweight and obesity remain a risk for persons over the age of 75.
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Elderly in hospital despite aged-care spaces
Dozens of elderly people have been unnecessarily taking up ACT hospital beds while they wait for residential aged-care places, health insiders say. Sources have told The Canberra Times that at the beginning of last month 85 patients in Canberra hospitals had been assessed as requiring residential aged care.
Keeping aged people in hospital is more expensive than placing them in residential aged care and can carry an increased risk of falls or infection.
The ACT Health Directorate said yesterday that last month 68 patients in Canberra’s two public hospitals were referred to the Aged Care Assessment Team to identify what services they required.
Only two patients in the Canberra Hospital were waiting for residential aged-care places, a spokesman for the Health Directorate said.
Anton Hutchinson, who owns the 80-bed Kankinya Aged Care Facility in Lyneham, said elderly people could experience excessive stays in hospital before a place was found for them despite the fact there was about about a 12 per cent vacancy rate in the local residential aged-care sector.
“The Aged Care Assessment Team used to supply facilities with direct contacts for recently assessed people to assist both the resident and the facility in gaining occupancy but over recent months this practice has ceased,” Mr Hutchinson said.
“Previously the hospitals were aware and conscious of nursing home vacancies and contact was made to deliver services, this has also ground to a halt. These vacancies are both frustrating and critical in an industry that sees one in three high-care facilities operating in the red.”
Mr Hutchinson said his facility, which specialises in caring for high-needs dementia patients, was operating at a profit but currently had eight vacancies.
If the vacancy rate increased for a prolonged period he could be forced to reduce staff levels.
Anglicare Canberra and Goulburn aged-care business manager Gayle Sweaney said there were vacancies at her agency’s two ACT aged-care homes.
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Keeping aged people in hospital is more expensive than placing them in residential aged care and can carry an increased risk of falls or infection.
The ACT Health Directorate said yesterday that last month 68 patients in Canberra’s two public hospitals were referred to the Aged Care Assessment Team to identify what services they required.
Only two patients in the Canberra Hospital were waiting for residential aged-care places, a spokesman for the Health Directorate said.
Anton Hutchinson, who owns the 80-bed Kankinya Aged Care Facility in Lyneham, said elderly people could experience excessive stays in hospital before a place was found for them despite the fact there was about about a 12 per cent vacancy rate in the local residential aged-care sector.
“The Aged Care Assessment Team used to supply facilities with direct contacts for recently assessed people to assist both the resident and the facility in gaining occupancy but over recent months this practice has ceased,” Mr Hutchinson said.
“Previously the hospitals were aware and conscious of nursing home vacancies and contact was made to deliver services, this has also ground to a halt. These vacancies are both frustrating and critical in an industry that sees one in three high-care facilities operating in the red.”
Mr Hutchinson said his facility, which specialises in caring for high-needs dementia patients, was operating at a profit but currently had eight vacancies.
If the vacancy rate increased for a prolonged period he could be forced to reduce staff levels.
Anglicare Canberra and Goulburn aged-care business manager Gayle Sweaney said there were vacancies at her agency’s two ACT aged-care homes.
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