Table 2.

Comparison of Identified Medicare Fee-For-Service Assisted Living Facility Residents’ Chronic Conditions to Residents’ Conditions in the National Survey of Residential Care Facilities

	Medicare FFS Beneficiaries Residing in Validated ALF ZIP Codes in 2008 (N=370,693)	ALF Residents from the 2010 NSRCF (N = 3009)
	%	Weighted % (95%CL)
Alzheimer’s Disease or Related Dementia	41.4	45.6 (43.6 – 47.5)
Heart Attack/Acute Myocardial Infarction	1.9	3.7 (2.9 – 4.5)
Asthma	4.9	4.3 (3.4 – 5.1)
Heart Failure	36.7	14.0 (12.6 – 15.5)
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	18.5	14.2 (12.8 – 15.6)
Depression	26.1	25.6 (23.9 – 27.4)
Hypertension	71.7	58.9 (56.9 – 60.8)
Stroke//Transient Ischemic Attack	9.7	10.9 (9.6 – 12.3)

Note. All residents are age 65 years or older. ALF = Assisted Living Facility with 25 or more beds; FFS = Medicare Fee-For-Service; NSRCF = National Survey of Residential Care Facilities; CL = Confidence Limits for Percent