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First nursing home admissions: time spent at home and in institutions after discharge.

M A Lewis, B Leake, M Leal-Sotelo and V Clark

School of Nursing, University of California-Los Angeles 90024-6917.

We tracked 96 percent of a sample of 1,942 nursing home patients admitted to a nursing home for the first time in 1982-83. Patients discharged alive from the nursing home were followed for two years or until death. The relative time spent at home, in hospitals, and in skilled nursing facilities is reported. Of the 705 patients discharged from their initial nursing home admission to homes in the community, about 50 percent made only one transfer and only 15 percent made four or more transfers. Of the 509 discharged to a hospital, 26 percent died there and 37 percent of the 374 survivors made four or more moves in the next two years. In all, 1,332 patients were discharged alive and they spent almost two-thirds of the subsequent two years, or their remaining lifetimes, in the community. Of those who transferred only once, over two-thirds of their follow-up time was spent in their own homes. Policies concerned with long-term care should use some type of actuarial data base to successfully plan and implement long-term care insurance.

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