Publicaties
Impact of Chronic Conditions and Multimorbidity on the Disability Burden in the Older Population in Belgium Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent
The increase in longevity along with a high prevalence of chronic conditions contribute to increased disability burden. Despite the high occurrence of multimorbidity observed in advanced ages, most studies are restricted to the investigation of individual diseases. In this study, we assessed the impact of chronic conditions and multimorbidity on the disability burden in the older population in Belgium.
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Advance care planning in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other chronic life-limiting conditions Vrije Universiteit Brussel
People live longer primarily because of improved public health, medical knowledge, and technology. This resulted in a growing population of older people and a fundamental change in the main cause of death, i.e. due to chronic life-limiting illnesses. Chronic-life-limiting illnesses are characterized by prolonged disease trajectories, with a functional decline over months or years and are responsible for more than 73% of the ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to functional limitations using a multinomial outcome Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent
Background: The global phenomenon of population ageing is creating new challenges in both high and middle income countries, as functional limitations are expected to increase with age. The attribution method has been proposed to identify which conditions contribute most to disability using cross-sectional data. Although the original method was based on binary outcomes, we recently proposed an extension to multinomial responses, since ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to gender disparities in disability in the older population in Brazil, 2013 Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent
Objectives: To assess the contribution of chronic conditions to the disability burden in the older men and women in Brazil. Methods: Data from 10,290 participants of the Brazilian National Health Survey in 2013 aged 60 years or older were used. Disability was defined based on limitations in activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). Binomial additive hazards models were fitted to assess the ...
Place of death of children with complex chronic conditions Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent
Cross-national understanding of place of death is crucial for health service systems for their provision of efficient and equal access to paediatric palliative care. The objectives of this population-level study were to examine where children with complex chronic conditions (CCC) die and to investigate associations between places of death and sex, cause of death and country. The study used death certificate data of all deceased 1- to ...