Predicting Nursing Home Admissions among Incontinent Older Adults: A Comparison of Residential Differences across Six Years

Uses data from the Longitudinal Studies on Aging (1984-90) to examine a sample who at baseline lived in community settings and reported problems with urinary incontinence (n=719). Analyses indicate that residents of less urbanized and more thinly populated nonmetropolitan counties were more likely t...

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Published inThe Gerontologist Vol. 35; no. 6; p. 732
Main Author Coward, Raymond T
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.12.1995
Subjects
Activities of Daily Living - classification
Admission Criteria
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Community Services
Female
Geriatric Assessment
Health Services
Homes for the Aged - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Incontinence
Longitudinal Studies
Longitudinal Study on Aging
Male
Multivariate Analysis
Nursing Homes
Nursing Homes - statistics & numerical data
Older Adults
Patient Admission - statistics & numerical data
Residence Characteristics
Rural Urban Differences
Social Support
United States - epidemiology
Urinary Incontinence - epidemiology
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Summary:Uses data from the Longitudinal Studies on Aging (1984-90) to examine a sample who at baseline lived in community settings and reported problems with urinary incontinence (n=719). Analyses indicate that residents of less urbanized and more thinly populated nonmetropolitan counties were more likely to have a nursing home admission than others. (JPS)
ISSN:0016-9013
DOI:10.1093/geront/35.6.732