According to a recent study conducted by academics from the University of Sydney, leading an unhealthy lifestyle may raise your likelihood of requiring assisted living services as you age.

The peer-reviewed study, which was published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, looked at how things like smoking, exercise, sitting, sleeping, and eating affected people's propensity to need nursing home admission.

The study involved 127,108 men and women aged 60 and older who participated in the Sax Institute over 45 study. As part of the study, participants were asked to report their lifestyle behaviors and received scores based on their reports. Top scores were awarded to those who were active for more than 300 minutes per week, did not smoke, slept seven to nine hours a day, sat less than seven hours a day, and ate a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. vegetables and consume less red and processed meat.

Participants were divided into three groups based on their scores:
low risk, medium risk and high risk. One in seven participants was in the high-risk group. During an average follow-up of about 10 years, 18% of the participants were admitted to nursing homes, with participants in the high-risk group 43% more likely to be hospitalized than those in the high-risk group. low-risk group. Participants in the medium-risk group had a 12% higher risk of hospitalization than the low-risk group.

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