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Supporting the health of growing numbers of frail older adults living in subsidized housing requires interventions that can combat frailty, improve residents' functional abilities, and reduce their health care costs. Tai Chi is an increasingly popular multimodal mind–body exercise that incorporates physical, cognitive, social, and meditative components in the same activity and offers a promising intervention...
ObjectiveTo examine the patterns of health care utilization by the elderly and test the influence of functional decline.
Data Source and Study DesignWe used the three regular waves of the SHARE survey to estimate the influence of frailty on health care utilization in 10 European countries. We controlled for the main correlates of frailty and unobserved individual effects.
ResultsThe frail elderly...
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