Medicare Spending and the Adequacy of Support With Daily Activities in Community-Living Older Adults With Disability: An Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Identifying factors that affect variation in health care spending among older adults with disability may reveal opportunities to better address their care needs while offsetting excess spending.

Objective

To quantify differences in total Medicare spending among older adults with disability by whether they experience negative consequences due to inadequate support with household activities, mobility, or self-care.

Design

Observational study of in-person interviews and linked Medicare claims.

Setting

United States, 2015.

Participants

3716 community-living older adults who participated in the 2015 NHATS (National Health and Aging Trends Study) and survived for 12 months.

Measurements

Total Medicare spending by spending quartile in multivar

SUBMITTER: Wolff JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6736697 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature