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| Exploring the ecology of Canada's publicly funded residential long-term care bed supply | | Author(s) | Saskia N Sivananthan, Malcolm Doupe, Margaret J McGregor |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 34, no 1, March 2015 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, March 2015 |
| Pages | pp 60-74 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/cjg |
| Keywords | Bed availability ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Expenditure [care] ; Public expenditure ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Despite Canada's increasing population of older people and the varying long-term care (LTC) strategies that provinces have implemented, little research has focused on understanding the extent to which publicly funded residential LTC bed supply varies across provinces, or the factors influencing this variation. This study involved an analysis in which the authors examined the association of three select jurisdictional characteristics with LTC bed supply: population age demographics, provincial wealth, and provincial investments in home care. No significant cross-jurisdictional "ecology" or inter-relatedness was found between the variation in LTC bed supply and any of the examined variables. Interprovincial variation in bed supply also did not statistically influence alternate level of care days specific to LTC waits, suggesting that these days were not influenced simply by differences in LTC bed supply, and that other provincial-level factors were in play. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150626294 A |
| Classmark | QKW: KW: LHB: QD: WN8: 7S |
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