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Do impaired older persons with health care needs occupy US assisted living facilities?
— an analysis of six national studies | | Author(s) | Stephen M Golant |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 59B, no 2, March 2004 |
| Pages | pp S68-S79 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Sheltered housing ; Residents [care homes] ; Physical disabilities ; Mental disorder ; Needs [elderly] ; Health services ; Research Reviews ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The assisted living facility (ALF) is the fastest growing institutional long-term care alternative for frail older people in the US. This analysis assesses the extent to which older people with physical and cognitive disabilities and health care needs occupy ALFs in the US. The six studies reviewed had several methodological weaknesses, resulting in different statistical populations of ALFs, samples with very different numerical and attribute properties, and findings based on disparate indicators. The older residents of ALFs were less physically and cognitively impaired than those in nursing homes. ALF facilities were more likely to admit or retain frail older people when they had relatively minor or less serious physical or cognitive impairment or health care needs. ALFs are found to be an extraordinarily diverse shelter and care alternative: their residents can include very frail older people with serious chronic health problems. Average duration of stays may be as long as 3 years. It is suggested that researchers need to conduct more carefully executed studies with replicable methodologies that produce unbiased and generalisable findings. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040705218 A |
| Classmark | KLA: KX: BN: E: IK: L: 3A:6KC: 7T |
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