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The probability of nursing home use over a lifetime in Australia
Author(s) -
Liu Zhibin
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
international journal of social welfare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1468-2397
pISSN - 1369-6866
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2397.00126
Subject(s) - nursing homes , cohort , nursing , medicine , term (time) , long term care , demography , gerontology , sociology , physics , quantum mechanics
This article further develops the life table models used in the USA by taking advantage of the superior data available in Australia. The probabilities of nursing home use over a lifetime are estimated for various ages for men and women. The results show that over one‐third of the members of a female birth cohort will eventually enter nursing homes for long‐term care at least once. The corresponding probability for males is one in five. A woman at age 65 faces a probability as high as 39% of using a nursing home for permanent care before her death compared with 25% for a man at age 65.