Community Residence One Year After Hip Fracture

Abstract

We examined the relationship ofprehospital and in-hospital variables to location one yearfollowinghipfracture in a sample of 84 community-residing subjects aged 60 and older, whose fractures were not due to metastatic cancer or other bone disease or severe trauma and who were treated surgically and discharged alive. Prehospital and in-hospital data were gathered through retrospective chart reviews and one-year data obtained through telephone interviews. At one year, 70 (83%) of subjects were living in the community, 11 (13%) were in a nursing home, and 3 (4%) had died. Logistic regression showed that location at discharge and persistent mental impairment (present at admission and throughout the hospitalization) significantly increased the odds of not residing in the community when other variables were controlled.