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| Characteristics of residents and providers in the Assisted Living Pilot Program | | Author(s) | Susan Hedrick, Marylou Guihan, Michael Chapko |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 47, no 3, June 2007 |
| Pages | pp 365-377 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Residents [care homes] ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Community care ; Long term ; Pilot ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The number of residents in assisted living in the US has rapidly increased, although these facilities still primarily serve people who can pay out of their own pockets. The US Department of Veteran Affairs (DVA) was authorised to provide this level of care for the first time in the Assisted Living Pilot Program (ALPP). The authors describe the residents and providers, comparing them across three facility types and other populations to assess the characteristics and feasibility of this new approach. They report on 743 residents placed from 2002 to 2004. The DVA contracted with 58 adult family homes, 56 assisted living facilities and 46 residential care facilities. The average ALPP resident was a 70-year old unmarried White man referred from hospital and living in a private residence prior to placement. Adult family homes enrolled residents requiring greater levels of assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs) from other facility types. Assisted living facilities were less likely than adult family homes to admit residents with functional disabilities and less likely than either adult family homes or adult residential care facilities to admit residents with certain care needs. ALPP place residents with a wide range of characteristics in community facilities that varied widely in size and services. This information can help determine the role of this type of care in and outside the DVA. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080402213 A |
| Classmark | KX: KW: LHB: PA: 4Q: 4UC: 7T |
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