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| An empirical typology of residential care/assisted living based on a four-state study | | Author(s) | Nan Sook Park, Sheryl Zimmerman, Philip D Sloane |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 46, no 2, April 2006 |
| Pages | pp 238-248 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Sheltered housing ; Care homes ; Cluster analysis ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Residential care or assisted living describes diverse facilities providing non-nursing home care primarily to older residents. This article derives typologies of assisted living based on theoretically and practically grounded evidence. The authors obtained data from the Collaborative Studies of Long-Term care, which examined 193 assisted living facilities in four states: Florida, Maryland, New Jersey and North Carolina. By using mixture modelling, typologies were derived in five different ways, based on: structure; process; resident case-mix; structure and process; and structure, process and resident case-mix. Although configurations of typologies varied as a function of criterion variables used, common themes emerged from different cluster solutions. A typology based on resident case-mix yielded a five-cluster solution, whereas a typology based on structure, process and resident case-mix resulted in six distinct clusters. Medical case-mix or psychiatric illness and high resident impairment were two clusters identified by both strategies. Typologies such as those described in this article may be useful in clinical practice, research and policy. To the extent that public payment defines its own cluster, the potential for inequities in care merits careful attention. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070926204 A |
| Classmark | KLA: KW: 3YB: 7T |
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