Increasing Prevalence of Assisted Living as a Substitute for Private-Pay Long-Term Nursing Care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Given the tremendous growth in assisted living (AL) over the past 20 years, it is important to understand how expansion has affected the demand for long-term care (LTC) provided in nursing homes (NHs). We estimated the effect of a change in county-level AL beds on the prevalence of private-pay residents and private-pay resident days at the NH-level.

Data sources

National census of large AL providers (25+ beds), and Minimum Data Set combined with Medicare enrollment records and claims from 2007 and 2014.

Study design

Retrospective longitudinal analysis of LTC markets.

Principal findings

Mean AL beds per county increased from 285 to 324, while NHs exhibited a decrease in private-pay residents (20.1 to 17.7 percent) and resident days (21.3 to 17.5 percen

SUBMITTER: Silver BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6232444 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature