Revisiting the Role of Gender and Marital Status as Risk Factors for Nursing Home Entry.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To study the role of gender and marital status as risk factors for nursing home entry in the United States.

Method

The paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative survey of the older population in the United States. Multivariate logit models of the risk of nursing home entry over a 2-year follow-up period were estimated for noninstitutionalized individuals over the age of 65. A multiple imputation procedure was used to explore the sensitivity of the results to alternative assumptions about the data-generating process of missing outcome values.

Results

In an analysis based on complete observations, women exhibited the same risk of nursing home entry as men (risk ratio [RR] = 1.01; CI: 0.90, 1.13). However, after expanding

SUBMITTER: Casanova M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8495731 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature