Nursing homes and mortality in Europe: Uncertain causality

Abstract

The current health crisis has particularly affected the elderly population. Nursing homes have unfortunately experienced a relatively large number of deaths. On the basis of this observation and working with European data (from SHARE), we want to check whether nursing homes were lending themselves to excess mortality even before the pandemic. Controlling for a number of important characteristics of the elderly population in and outside nursing homes, we conjecture that the difference in mortality between those two samples is to be attributed to the way nursing homes are designed and organised. Using matching methods, we observe excess mortality in Belgium,

Examining the impact of Co-residence with a daughter-in-law on older adult health in China: Evidence from a frailty index-based study

“…Furthermore, older adults who face economic challenges and live alone have a higher risk of suicide ( Ju et al, 2016 ). Flawinne et al (2023) uncovered evidence of excess mortality in nursing homes across several European countries, predating the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, various scholars from China have posited that alterations in living arrangements could influence mortality rates among old adults.…”