Reported Expectations for Nursing Home Placement Among Older Adults and Their Role as Risk Factors for Nursing Home Admissions | Zendy

Adaeze B. Akamigbo | Zendy; Fredric D. Wolinsky | Zendy

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Reported Expectations for Nursing Home Placement Among Older Adults and Their Role as Risk Factors for Nursing Home Admissions

Author(s) -

Adaeze B. Akamigbo,

Fredric D. Wolinsky

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

the gerontologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524

H-Index - 138

eISSN - 1758-5341

pISSN - 0016-9013

DOI - 10.1093/geront/46.4.464

Subject(s) - multinomial logistic regression , health and retirement study , medicine , logistic regression , confounding , binomial regression , gerontology , demography , pathology , machine learning , sociology , computer science

Individual expectations among community-dwelling older adults and their subsequent effect on placement status have recently been considered. Previous studies, however, have been limited by eligibility and exclusion criteria, treating expectations as a continuous measure, omitting potential confounders, and ignoring Race x Gender interactions.

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