Nursing Home Abuse Leads To Premature Death
Posted by BSadmin - 06/01/10 at 08:01 pmA new study suggests that the risk of premature death among older adults who suffer abuse is more than double that of seniors who live free of ill treatment.
The study from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The Rush University study was in-depth. Researchers analyzed records for 9,318 seniors 65 years of age and older, enrolled between 1993 and 2005 in the Chicago Health and Aging Project, a study of a community-dwelling population. Researchers conducted face-to-face interviews to assess participants’ health histories, physical fitness, cognitive abilities, health behaviors and psychosocial behaviors.
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