McKnight’s Senior Living December 21, 2023
A new study gives more insight into how much time older adults in assisted living spend in and out of the setting.
Long-term care providers look at “home time” — being alive but not in a healthcare institution — as a quality metric. A team of researchers examined the variation in home time among people in assisted living communities in the first year after they moved in. That is, they were in home time at the assisted living community but were not in home time if they had to move to a nursing home, were hospitalized or went into hospice. The investigators also evaluated the link between state regulations for direct care worker training and staffing for licensed workers.
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