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This study aimed to identify the care complexity factors according to age in older people hospitalized with COVID-19.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>A multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted from 1 March 2020 to 31 March 2022\u00a0at eight public hospitals in Spain. All older patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were classified in the following groups: young-old (65\u201374\u00a0years), middle-old (75\u201384\u00a0years), and oldest-old (\u226585\u00a0years). The main variable was care complexity individual factors (CCIFs), which included 27 CCIFs classified in four domains: comorbidity\/complications, psycho-emotional, mental-cognitive, and sociocultural. Multinomial logistic regressions were performed to identify the association of each CCIFs with age group.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 5,658 admissions were included. Of these, 46.3% were young-old (65\u201374\u00a0years), 34.8% middle-old (75\u201384\u00a0years) and 18.8% oldest-old (\u226585\u00a0years). The analysis shows that middle-old (75\u201384\u00a0years) patients were associated with chronic disease, position impairment, urinary or fecal incontinence, anatomical and functional disorders, vascular fragility, involuntary movements, fear or anxiety and mental status impairments. Extreme weight, communication disorders, aggressive behavior, agitation and perception reality disorders were additional factors associated with the oldest-old (\u226585\u00a0years) inpatients with COVID-19. The median number of CCIFs was higher in the oldest-old than in the other age groups (four in young-old [65\u201374\u00a0years]; six in middle-old [75\u201384\u00a0years]; seven in oldest-old [\u226585 years] [OR:2.9; 95%CI:2.8\u20133.1; p &amp;lt; 0.001]).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The oldest groups of patients (\u226575\u00a0years) admitted with COVID-19 had more CCIFs than the young-old group. 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