Place of Care in the Last Three Years of Life for Medicare Beneficiaries

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Examines place of care during the last 3 years of life according to days of institutional care (hospital inpatient or skilled nursing facility), skilled home care (home healthcare or hospice), or personal home. Analyzes sociodemographic factors of 199,828 Medicare beneficiaries, with data broken down by median days in care, age at death, sex, race/ethnicity, insurance type, health conditions, and metro versus nonmetro neighborhood.

Haiqun Lin, Irina B. Grafova, Anum Zafar, et al.

BMC Geriatrics, 24, 91

01/2024

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Elderly population · Healthcare facilities · Home and community-based services · Home health · Hospice and palliative care · Inpatient care · Long-term care · Mortality · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data