Research on Usage Patterns in Nursing Home Care Usage Patterns
By nursing-home-lawyer | May 25, 2007
Here’s an interesting study on the importance of community-based care.
Elderly Less Likely to Enter Nursing Home in States with More Services
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago report the finding in the May 11 issue of the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences.“Traditionally, long term care has been provided in nursing homes, but there is a movement to help older people live at home and in the community,” said Naoko Muramatsu, associate professor of community health sciences at the UIC School of Public Health and lead author of the study.”States vary greatly in their commitment to provide home- and community- based services such as personal care, adult day care, nutrition, and transportation,” said Muramatsu, a researcher in UIC’s Institute for Health Research and Policy.
“There has been little evidence, prior to this study, to show that spending more money on these services helps seniors avoid or delay placement in a nursing home.”
Some states spend as little as $35 per person each year on home- and community-based services for seniors, while other states spend more than $1,300 per person annually, according to previous research.
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