Developments in the Market for Assisted Living: Residential Care Availability in 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Describe how the availability of assisted living (AL) and dementia-specific AL vary across counties and correlate with demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.

Design

Maps, univariate statistics, and standardized mean differences show the differences between counties with high and low levels of AL market penetration, and between counties with and without dementia-specific AL.

Setting and participants

Data collected from state agencies on licensed AL communities, capacity, and geographic location, and population characteristics from the Area Health Resource file. We include novel and previously undescribed data on dementia-specific AL licenses in 21 states.

Measures

AL market penetration is reported as the number of AL units or beds per 1000 per

SUBMITTER: Cornell PY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12851845 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature