Development of healthcare use across contemporary retirement pathways: results from a register based cohort study

Koenig, Stefanie, Kelfve, Susanne ORCID: 0000-0001-9369-1928, Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas and Wetzel, Martin ORCID: 0000-0002-9206-0224 . Development of healthcare use across contemporary retirement pathways: results from a register based cohort study. Scand. J. Public Health. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. ISSN 1651-1905

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DOI:10.1177/1403494821998901

Abstract

Aim: We aimed to understand the interplay between retirement pathways and healthcare use in the postponed and structurally changing context of retirement. Methods: Based on Swedish register data on income and healthcare use, we applied combined sequence and cluster analysis to identify typical pathways into retirement and analysed their relation to healthcare use developments. Results: We detected five distinct pathways into retirement. Level of healthcare use was significantly higher for the pathway via disability pensions. We saw an overall increase in healthcare use across the retirement process that was related to age rather than to the different pathways. Conclusions: Level of healthcare use at the beginning of the retirement process may be related to selection into different pathways of retirement. We did not find clear evidence across several healthcare measures that different pathways lead to different developments in healthcare use.

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Creators	Email	ORCID	ORCID Put Code
Koenig, Stefanie	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Kelfve, Susanne	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0001-9369-1928	UNSPECIFIED
Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Wetzel, Martin	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0002-9206-0224	UNSPECIFIED