Table 5.
Barriers and Recommendations
| Sanders- Brown |
Well-Elders | Nursing Home |
Homebound | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barriers to Dental Services (n) | 8 | 112 | 116 | 327 | 563 |
| No Dental Insurance | 4 (50.05) | 50 (44.6%) | 42 (36.2%) | 222 (67.9%) | 318 (56.5%) |
| Can't Afford | 1 (12.5%) | 62 (55.4%) | 30 (25.9%) | 207 (63.3%) | 300 (53.3%) |
| No Transportation | 0 (0.0%) | 9 (8.0%) | 51 (44.0%) | 82 (25.1%) | 142 (25.2%) |
| Limited Mobility | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 39 (33.6%) | 87 (26.6%) | 126 (22.4%) |
| Won't Accept Medicaid | 0 (0.0%) | 3 (2.7%) | 17 (14.7%) | 21 (6.4%) | 31 (7.3%) |
| Other/Don't Know | 4 (50.0%) | 8 (7.2%) | 12 (10.4%) | 21 (6.4%) | 45 (8.0%) |
| Recommendations (n) | 57 | 321 | 315 | 473 | 1166 |
| Make Dentistry Affordable | 27 (47.4%) | 197 (45.8%) | 106 (33.7%) | 317 (67.0%) | 647 (55.5%) |
| Mobile Clinic/ Mobile Van | 6 (10.5%) | 54 (12.6%) | 107 (34.0%) | 164 (34.7%) | 331 (28.4%) |
| House Visits | 2 (3.5%) | 8 (1.9%) | 73 (23.2%) | 176 (37.2%) | 259 (22.2%) |
| Handicap Accessible Offices | 5 (8.8%) | 18 (4.2%) | 55 (17.5%) | 99 (20.9%) | 177 (15.2%) |
| Other | 24 (42.1%) | 31 (7.2%) | 40 (12.7%) | 38 (8.0%) | 133 (11.4%) |