Health Care Use and Outcomes in Assisted Living Communities: Race, Ethnicity, and Dual Eligibility.

ABSTRACT: Assisted Living (AL) has become an important residential long-term care option in the United States, yet very little is known about the nature and quality of care received in this setting by racial/ethnic minorities or residents dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Using calendar year 2018 Medicare data, we identified 255,564 fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries age 55+ who resided in 24,108 ALs across the United States. We fit several logistic regression models with individual-level covariates and AL-level fixed effects, to examine the association between race/ethnicity and dual status with inpatient hospital admission, 30-day readmission, emergency room use, and nursing home placement. Significant variations in these measures were found both within and across ALs for racial/ethni

SUBMITTER: Temkin-Greener H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8989767 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature