title: [Place and cause of death in community-dwelling disabled elderly people].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the place and cause of death in community-dwelling disabled elderly people.
  
  
  METHODS
  The baseline data of 1,875 participants and their caregivers in the Nagoya Longitudinal Study for Frail Elderly were used for the analysis. Cox proportional hazard models were used to assess the associations between the variables and the place of death during the 3-year follow-up period.
  
  
  RESULTS
  During the observation period of three years, 454 died (hospital death: 347, home death: 107). In total, the rates of pneumonia-, cancer- and heart failure-related death were 22.7%, 14.5%, and 13.2%, respectively. Among the home deaths, 22.4% were age-related deaths and 18.7% were heart failure-related deaths. Females, older, and participants with dementia were more likely to die at home, while those with cancer or a spouse caregiver were more likely to die in the hospital. There were no differences in the levels of caregiver burden or formal service use between the cases of home and hospital death. Multivariate Cox hazard models revealed that home death was associated with an older age and the absence of diabetes mellitus and cancer at baseline.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We demonstrated that death at home among community-dwelling disabled elderly is associated with an older age, and the absence of diabetes mellitus and cancer. Due to the lack of important factors that should be addressed, a further study is required in the future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Healthcare and Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: Hiromi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Enoki
authors.forename: Sachiko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Izawa
authors.forename: Takahisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hirose
authors.forename: Masafumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuzuya
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002423:Cause of Death; D015331:Cohort Studies; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D057187:Independent Living; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012737:Sex Factors