Expenditures for long-term care services by community elders.
Costs of care are presented for elderly persons in five community-based settings. These settings include elderly persons living in their own homes or in group housing and who do or do not receive case-managed home care. Expenditures for care ranged from a low of about $1,100 per year to a high of $4,025. The level of expenditure was directly related to risk of institutionalization and was higher for those receiving case-managed home care. As a majority of the elderly use a substantial amount of care even without case management, the potential for community care demonstration programs to yield significant cost savings appears quite limited.
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000191:economics; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003625:Data Collection; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006304:Health Status; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization / Q000191:economics; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000191:economics*; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States