Table 2.
Nonparametric estimates of nursing home use and out-of-pocket costs from age 57 to end of life, n = 3,336
| 95% confidence interval | |||
| Nursing home use and OOP spending | Mean | Lower | Upper |
| Lifetime NH use | |||
| Percent with any lifetime use | 55.7 | 54.1 | 57.4 |
| Mean no. of nights | 272 | 253 | 292 |
| Percentiles | |||
| 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | 10 | 5 | 15 |
| 75 | 240 | 208 | 272 |
| 90 | 1,001 | 913 | 1,089 |
| 95 | 1,495 | 1,391 | 1,599 |
| Lifetime OOP spending | |||
| Percent with any OOP spending | 31.6 | 30.0 | 33.2 |
| Mean dollars | 7,344 | 6,519 | 8,168 |
| Percentiles | |||
| 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 75 | 1,072 | 598 | 1,545 |
| 90 | 19,647 | 16,294 | 22,999 |
| 95 | 46,660 | 40,611 | 52,709 |
“95% confidence interval” gives the lower and upper bounds for the 95% confidence intervals. “Mean no. of nights” gives average lifetime number of nights in nursing home, averaged over all individuals, not just those with nursing home use. “OOP spending” means out-of-pocket spending on nursing home use. Spending is expressed in 2013 dollars as a present value at age 57 with a real discount rate of 3%. NH, nursing home; OOP, out-of-pocket.