COVID-19 Pandemic in Assisted Living Communities: Results from Seven States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe variations in COVID-19 confirmed cases and deaths among assisted living (AL) residents and examine their associations with key AL characteristics.

Design

Observational study employing data on confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths in ALs from seven states, through May 29, 2020.

Setting

Information on COVID-19 cases/deaths in ALs was obtained from state government websites. A national inventory of ALs was used to identify communities with and without COVID-19 cases/deaths. Medicare Beneficiary Summary File identifying AL residents was employed to develop AL characteristics. County-level COVID-19 laboratory-confirmed cases/deaths were obtained from publicly available data.

Participants

We found 4,865 ALs (2,647 COVID-19 cases and 777 deaths) in

SUBMITTER: Temkin-Greener H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7537218 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature