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Published in final edited form as: Alzheimers Dement. 2022 Jan 3;18(10):1880–1888. doi: 10.1002/alz.12513

TABLE 2.

Health care use and outcomes within 180 days after moving to assisted living (N = 20,646)

	General assisted living	Memory care
	N = 12,523 (raw) N = 10,390.2 (wt)	N = 123 (raw) N = 10,255.8 (wt)	Unadjusted Difference	Adjusted difference^(a) [95% CI]	Pr(diff\|H₀)
Any acute inpatient hospital admission	0.265	0.239	−0.025	−0.018 [−0.032, −0.004]	0.014
Any nursing home admission	0.155	0.134	−0.0207	−0.022 [−0.033, −0.011]	<0.001
Any long-term nursing home admission^(b)	0.0351	0.022	−0.0131	−0.010 [−0.015, −0.004]	<0.001

Notes: Data include traditional Medicare beneficiaries who changed address to a large (25+ units) general assisted-living community or a memory-care-designated assisted-living community from January 1, 2014, to June 30, 2017.

^(a)

Adjusted using inverse propensity weighted regression adjustment. Propensity score calculated using resident demographics, chronic conditions, previous health care use, and characteristics of their previous home county (see Table 1).

^(b)

Long-term nursing home stay is defined as >90 days.