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Effects of facility characteristics on departures from assisted living
— results from a national study | | Author(s) | Charles D Phillips, Yolanda Munoz, Michael Sherman |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 43, no 5, October 2003 |
| Pages | pp 690-696 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Care homes ; House removal ; Admission [nursing homes] ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Analyses for this study are based on data on 1,438 residents of 278 assisted living facilities (ALFs) from the US National Study of Assisted Living for the Frail Elderly. Analyses of these data from 1998 and 1999 specifically focused on those residents who left a study ALF between the two data collection dates. Multinomial logit models were estimated to investigate the impact of facility and individual factors on residents' status at follow-up. More than three-quarters of those leaving their baseline ALF did so because they needed more care. Multivariate analyses indicated that poorer functional status and being married affected residents' relative odds of death before follow-up. Moving to another setting, other that a nursing home, was more likely for residents in for-profit ALFs. Thus, the most potentially interesting policy implications are those concerning the factors that affected residents' relative likelihoods of entering a nursing home. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040504215 A |
| Classmark | KW: TNH: LHB:QKH: 3J: 7T |
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