- Title
- Timing of most recent health care visit by older people living with and without HIV: findings from the SAGE well-being of older people study in Uganda
- Creator
- Mugisha, Joseph O.; Schatz, Enid J.; Negin, Joel; Mwaniki, Paul; Kowal, Paul; Seeley, Janet
- Relation
- International Journal of Aging and Human Development Vol. 85, Issue 1, p. 18-32
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091415016680071
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- The objective of this article is to document factors associated with the recency of health-care service utilization by people aged 50 years and over living with and without HIV in Uganda. A survey was conducted with 510 Ugandans aged 50 and older, living with and without HIV. The survey included information on sociodemographic characteristics, health state, self-reported chronic conditions, and timing of most recent visit to a health-care facility (time since last visit [TSLV]). We use ordinal logistic regression to identify independent factors associated TSLV. Independent factors associated with TSLV (>6 months) include age, OR = 2.40 [95% CI 1.08-5.37] for those aged 80 years and above, urban respondents, OR = 0.6 [95%CI 0.38-0.94], HIV-positive respondents, OR = 0.33 [95%CI 0.18-0.59], and better health. To understand the meaning of these finding, further investigation should examine (a) how best to define and measure older persons' health-care service needs and (b) older persons' decision-making processes around the timing of their access to health-care facilities.
- Subject
- African elders; aging population and health care; health; older adults; formal care
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1397493
- Identifier
- uon:34289
- Identifier
- ISSN:0091-4150
- Language
- eng
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