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Prior living arrangements and nursing home resident admission ADL characteristics
— a study of two states | | Author(s) | Brian L Egleston, Mark A Rudberg, Jacob A Brody |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 54B, no 4, July 1999 |
| Pages | pp S202-206 |
| Keywords | Living patterns ; Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Admission [nursing homes] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | There is evidence demonstrating that those who live alone are at an increased risk of nursing home institutionalisation as compared to those who live with others. The authors examine two hypotheses. First, older people living alone enter a nursing home with better activities of daily living (ADL) function than those living with others. Second, the magnitude of the difference in function between Medicaid recipients who live alone and Medicaid recipients who live with others varies across states. Minimum Data Set Plus records for 1993 and 1994 on 4,837 Medicaid reimbursed nursing home residents aged 65+ from two states were used. Medicaid reimbursed residents were chosen, because policy and admission conditions differ at state level. Residents in State A had a mean of 5.36 ADL limitations, and in State B a mean of 4.83 ADL limitations. Those living alone entered a nursing home with 0.61 fewer ADL limitations than those living with others. Living alone in State A reduced this association through an increase of 0.31 ADL limitations. Although the hypotheses are confirmed, the authors acknowledge limitations to their study. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991220212 A |
| Classmark | K7: CA: C4: LHB:QKH: 7T |
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