Small is beautiful? Explaining resident satisfaction in Swedish nursing home care.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Resident satisfaction is an important aspect of nursing home quality. Despite this, few studies have systematically investigated what aspects of nursing home care are most strongly associated with satisfaction. In Sweden, a large number of processual and structural measures are collected to describe the quality of nursing home care, though the impact of these measures on outcomes including resident satisfaction is poorly understood. METHODS:A cross-sectional analysis of data collected in two nationally representative surveys of Swedish eldercare quality using multi-level models to account for geographic differences. RESULTS:Of the factors examined, nursing home size was found to be the most important predictor of resident satisfaction, followed by the amount of exercise and acti

SUBMITTER: Spangler D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6878673 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature