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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 May 30.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2021 Sep;40(9):1377–1385. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00598

Exhibit 3:

Characteristics of a national sample of Medicare beneficiaries residing in assisted living communities with twenty-five or more beds (2007 and 2018)

2007 2018
Total sample of
assisted living
residents (n =
329,092)
Assisted living
residents with a
dementia diagnosis
(n = 169,835)
Total sample of
assisted living
residents
(n = 340,532)
Assisted living
residents with a
dementia diagnosis
(n = 145,594)
Age group (years), %
 <65 7.2 4.2 8.0 5.1
 65–74 10.8 7.5 16.6 10.8
 75–84 31.1 31.8 25.2 24.0
 85+ 50.9 56.5 50.2 60.0
Sex, %
 Male 30.9 28.0 34.8 32.1
 Female 69.1 72.0 65.2 67.9
Race, %
 White 93.1 93.3 90.1 89.7
 Black 3.3 3.4 4.7 5.4
 Hispanic 1.8 1.9 2.4 2.8
 Other 1.9 1.5 2.8 2.2
Dually enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid, % 19.8 21.3 24.1 30.4
Chronic conditions, %
 Anemia 66.9 73.1 74.5 86.7
 Atrial fibrillation 23.6 24.8 27.0 32.0
 Cancer 18.9 19.2 20.6 22.1
 Chronic kidney disease 22.2 23.5 48.1 58.4
 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 33.4 35.4 37.0 45.4
 Depression 43.9 53.5 55.9 72.4
 Diabetes 31.9 33.4 41.8 48.9
 Heart failure 43.7 47.4 43.0 54.8
 Hyperlipidemia 67.9 69.7 84.4 90.2
 Hypertension 85.2 89.0 87.7 95.2
 Ischemic heart disease 59.2 63.7 60.9 72.2
 Stroke 25.8 31.9 27.5 38.0
 <2 chronic conditionsa 8.0 4.2 6.9 1.1
 2–3 chronic conditionsa 18.2 15.7 11.8 5.9
 4–5 chronic conditionsa 27.3 27.5 20.7 16.7
 6+ chronic conditionsa 46.5 52.6 60.6 76.3
Monthly hospital admission rate, mean (SD) 0.046 (0.210) 0.051 (0.221) 0.040 (0.195) 0.057 (0.231)

SOURCE Authors’ analysis of the Medicare Master Beneficiary Summary File and Medicare Provider Analysis and Review data for a cohort of Medicare beneficiaries residing in nine-digit ZIP code corresponding to an assisted living with twenty-five or more beds in 2007 and 2018. NOTES Denominator is the number of assisted living residents who contributed at least one month of data to the study in each year. SD is standard deviation.

a

Condition counts were created from the conditions listed.