Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of newly-admitted older nursing home residents (2014–2016)
| All | |
|---|---|
| (n = 871,801) | |
| Percentage | |
| Age (years) | |
| 65 - < 75 | 21.4 |
| 75- < 85 | 34.3 |
| ≥ 85 | 44.3 |
| Female | 65.3 |
| Racial/ethnic minority | 18.8 |
| Nursing home location | |
| Rural | 23.5 |
| Urban | 76.5 |
| Admission source | |
| Community | 17.8 |
| Acute hospital | 63.8 |
| Othera | 18.4 |
| Physical frailty | |
| Robust | 9.6 |
| Pre-frail | 25.0 |
| Frail | 65.4 |
| Cognitive impairment | |
| None/Mild | 33.6 |
| Moderate | 30.1 |
| Severe | 36.4 |
| Active diagnosis | |
| Cancer | 6.8 |
| Heart failure | 18.9 |
| Hypertension | 76.3 |
| Diabetes mellitus | 31.3 |
| Alzheimer’s disease | 12.0 |
| Cerebrovascular accident/Transient ischemic attack/Stroke | 13.9 |
| Non-Alzheimer’s/other dementiab | 39.2 |
| Multiple sclerosis | 0.5 |
| Parkinson’s disease | 5.8 |
| Seizure disorder/Epilepsy | 5.8 |
| Arthritis | 26.1 |
| Osteoporosis | 11.7 |
| Hip fracture | 5.4 |
| Other fracture | 8.2 |
| Asthma/Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/Chronic lung disease | 19.6 |
| Anxiety disorder | 21.8 |
| Depression | 36.3 |
| Any presence of pain | 40.9 |
| In past 7 days or since admission, receipt of … | |
| Antipsychotics | 19.2 |
| Antianxiety medications | 18.4 |
| Antidepressant | 43.9 |
aIncluded another nursing home/swing bed, psychiatric hospital, inpatient rehabilitation facility, ID/DD facility, long-term care hospitals, hospice, and other unspecified admission sources
bIncluded non-Alzheimer’s dementia (e.g. vascular or multi-infarct dementia), mixed dementia; frontotemporal dementia (e.g. Pick’s disease), and dementia related to stroke, Parkinson’s or Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases