Forecasting Nursing Home Utilization of Elderly Americans

Andrew Dick, Alan M. Garber, Thomas MaCurdy

NBER Working Paper No. 4107
Issued in June 1992
NBER Program(s):   AG   HE

This paper describes the likelihood and duration of nursing home admissions experienced by Americans after age 65. Our analysis generates predictions for a representative population, not for one selected to be at high risk of institutionalization, and should therefore be of direct relevance to the design of long-term care policies.

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Published:

• Studies in the Economics of Aging, ed. David A. Wise, University of Chicago Press, 1994, p. 365 ,
• Forecasting Nursing Home Utilization of Elderly Americans, Andrew Dick, Alan M. Garber, Thomas E. MaCurdy, in Studies in the Economics of Aging (1994), University of Chicago Press
  

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