Functional disabilities and nursing home admittance
Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-2012
Abstract
This paper examines how inability to perform activities of daily living relates to the risk of nursing home admission over older adults' life courses. Using longitudinal data on persons over age 50 from the Health and Retirement Study, we show that aging one year boosts the probability of having two or more disabilities by 9 to 12 percent in a multivariate logistic model. Moreover, at least three-fifths of all 65-year-old men and three-quarters of women will experience disability levels during their remaining lifetimes severe enough to trigger nursing home admission. Our analysis also suggests that certain types of disability are more important than others in predicting nursing home admittance and use, which has implications for the design and benefits triggers for long-term care insurance programs.
Discipline
Finance and Financial Management
Research Areas
Finance
First Page
1
Last Page
43
Identifier
10.2139/ssrn.2157548
Publisher
Pension Research Council Working Paper WP 2012-19
Citation
KOH, Seng Kee Benedict; KOH, Benedict S. K.; and MITCHELL, Olivia S..
Functional disabilities and nursing home admittance. (2012). 1-43.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6795
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2157548