Does Social Support Affect Older Adults' General Practitioner Attendance Rates? Findings from the North West Coast Household Health Survey.

CONCLUSIONS: Increasing social support impacts to a small, but important, extent on reducing GP attendance in older adults. Future research needs to explore whether improving social support in old age can reduce GP utilization. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Findings suggest a need for improving social prescribing in older adults to reduce some GP visits which could be avoided and might not be necessary. PMID: 32594861 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Gerontologist - Category: Geriatrics Tags: Clin Gerontol Source Type: research