From a Bird's Eye View: Whole Social Networks in Adult Day Care Centers and Continuing Care Retirement Communities.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

The present study describes whole social networks in 4 adult day care centers (ADCCs) and 4 continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) in Israel.

Method

Each respondent received a list of names of all individuals receiving services in the respective ADCC or CCRC and was asked to indicate whom he/she knows from the list. We derived whole social network properties and used hierarchical cluster analysis to group network settings. We further examined the ability of the social network data to classify respondents as members of either an ADCC or a CCRC.

Results

Many social network properties were more favorable in CCRCs than in ADCCs. A striking finding of the present study is that one can classify with a relatively high degree of accuracy a re

SUBMITTER: Ayalon L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6176959 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature