Variation in residential care community resident characteristics, by size of community : United States, 2020

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• Personal Author:
  Caffrey, Christine ; Melekin, Amanuel ; Lu, Zhaohui ; Sengupta, Manisha
• Description:
  Residents of residential care communities are people who cannot live independently but generally do not require the skilled care provided by nursing homes. On any given day in 2020, an estimated 818,800 residents lived in residential care communities (1,2). With the aging of the population, the number of people living in residential care communities will likely increase, creating a sizeable group within the long-term care population. This report presents national estimates of selected characteristics of residential care community residents in 2020 and compares these characteristics by community size.
  
  Key Findings
  
  Data from the 2020 National Post-acute and Long-term Care Study
  
  ● In 2020, a greater percentage of residents in residential care communities with 26 beds or more were aged 85 and over compared with smaller communities.
  
  ● About 18% of all residential care community residents were Medicaid beneficiaries, and the percentage of Medicaid recipients decreased with increasing bed size.
  
  ● The prevalence of selected medical conditions, including Alzheimer disease and heart disease, varied by community size.
  
  ● The percentage of residents needing assistance in bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring, walking, and eating was highest in communities with 4–25 beds.
  
  Suggested citation: Caffrey C, Melekin A, Lu Z, Sengupta M. Variation in residential care community resident characteristics, by size of community: United States, 2020. NCHS Data Brief, no 454. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2022. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.15620/ cdc:121910.
  
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• Series:
  NCHS Data Briefs
• Document Type:
  Report
• Name as Subject:
  National Post-acute and Long-term Care Study (U.S.) ; National Post-acute and Long-term Care Study (U.S.)
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Issue:
  454
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b45e7e33396b6394f305291bf33e35a325dca114787dd11d91f163f95f529734
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/121910/cdc_121910_DS1.pdf
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