Table 1.
Demographics and Health Status of the Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries by Type of Housing (2002 to 2010)
| All | Community | Community Plus Services |
Facility | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 78,542) | (n = 70,957) | (n = 3,946) | (n = 3,639) | |
| sAge | 76.4 | 75.9 | 82.0 | 84.1 |
| Gender (female) | 58% | 56% | 71% | 73% |
| Race | ||||
| non-Hispanic White | 81% | 80% | 89% | 82% |
| non-Hispanic Black | 8% | 8% | 6% | 11% |
| Hispanic | 7% | 8% | 3% | 5% |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 2% | 2% | 1% | 1% |
| Other | 2% | 2% | 1% | 1% |
| Low Income (<=25,000) | 53% | 51% | 61% | 85% |
| Medicaid | 15% | 12% | 22% | 73% |
| ADL | ||||
| None | 87% | 90% | 74% | 12% |
| One | 5% | 4% | 10% | 9% |
| Two | 2% | 2% | 5% | 7% |
| Three | 2% | 2% | 5% | 15% |
| Four | 2% | 2% | 4% | 26% |
| Five | 2% | 1% | 3% | 32% |
| IADL | ||||
| None | 80% | 83% | 59% | 9% |
| One | 10% | 10% | 16% | 6% |
| Two | 5% | 4% | 12% | 21% |
| Three | 5% | 3% | 13% | 64% |
| Mobility Difficulty | 2.01 | 1.93 | 2.41 | 3.73 |
| Excellent Self-Rated Health | 8% | 7% | 19% | 45% |
| Cognitively Intact | 84% | 87% | 65% | 11% |
| Comorbidities (>=4) | ||||
| None | 7% | 7% | 9% | 16% |
| One | 16% | 16% | 16% | 25% |
| Two | 24% | 24% | 21% | 26% |
| Three | 23% | 23% | 22% | 18% |
| Four or More | 30% | 30% | 32% | 15% |
Notes: Sample n = 83,507; weighted sample represents a population of approximately 28.6 million elderly Medicare beneficiaries pa.
ADL = Activities of Daily Living (bathing, dressing, toileting, walking, eating). IADL = Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (telephoning, shopping, paying bills).
Cognitively intact means no problems with memory, decision making, and no diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease or other dementia. Mobility difficulty measured from 0 to 5 where 0 is no difficulty and 5 is unable to perform bending, reaching, grasping, stooping, or walking.