Open AccessDemographic Characteristics Driving Disparities in Receipt of Long-term Services and Supports in the Community Setting
Author(s) -
Jasmine Travers,
Mary D. Naylor,
Norma B. Coe,
Can Meng,
Fangyong Li,
Andrew Cohen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001544
Subject(s) - gerontology , medicine , activities of daily living , marital status , dementia , long term care , demographics , health equity , ethnic group , health and retirement study , receipt , demography , disease , public health , physical therapy , population , environmental health , psychiatry , nursing , pathology , sociology , world wide web , anthropology , computer science
Research suggests that growth in Black and Hispanic (minority) older adults' nursing home (NH) use may be the result of disparities in access to community-based and alternative long-term services and supports (LTSS).