Table 1.

Select Community, Resident Support Needs, and Health Characteristics by Setting

	Data Collection Period 2013–2015				Data Collection Period 2016–2018
	Hillside	Feld House	Garden House	Oakridge Manor	Camellia’s Cottage	Thames Place	Magnolia Gardens	Riverview Estates
Capacity	11	46	54	99	2	12	19	48
Ownership	Private	Foundation	Private	Corporate	Private	Private	Private	Corporate
Location	Rural	Suburban	Small town	Urban	Urban	Urban	Urban	Suburban
Resident Race/Culture	All White	All White/ Jewish	Mostly White	All African American	African American	African American and White	African American and White	Mostly White
# of Focal Residentsa	3	10	5	10	1	4	5	12
Help with ≥ 3 ADLs	2	7	3	4	0	1	2	7
Help with ≥ 3 IADLs	2	10	5	5	0	3	2	10
Help with Medication	3	9	4	5	0	3	2	11
Uses a walker	2	8	3	4	1	0	1	5
Uses a wheelchair	1	5	1	4	1	0	0	4
Average Number of Comorbiditiesb	6.6	7	4.4	5.5	4	5.25	4.2	5.8
Range of Comorbidities	6–8	5–10	2–7	4–7	4–4	4–7	3–7	1–10

^aHealth characteristics listed here only relate to these focal residents and not to all residents in each community.

^bComorbidities were determined and calculated based on the most common chronic conditions in AL by Caffery et al. (2012)