Facility ownership and mortality among older adults residing in care homes.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Nursing or care home characteristics may have a long-term impact on the residents' mortality risks that has not been studied previously. The study's main objective was to assess the association between facility ownership and long-term, all-cause mortality.

Research design and methods

We conducted a mortality follow-up study on a cohort of 611 nursing-home residents in the city Madrid, Spain, from their 1998-1999 baseline interviews up to September 2013. Residents lived in three types of facilities: public, subsidized and private, which were also sub-classified according to size (number of beds). Residents' information was collected by interviewing the residents themselves, their caregivers and facility physicians. We used time-to-event multivariable

SUBMITTER: Damian J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6396963 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature