Data for Long-Term Care Planning

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To provide state-level estimates for long-term care planning, synthetic estimation techniques were used to generate estimates of dependency in activities of daily living (ADL) and mobility among each state's population. Dependency is regressed on demographic predictor variables in a data set created by combining the 1977 National Health Interview Survey and 1977 National Nursing Home Survey. Coefficients were then applied to 1980 U.S. Bureau of the Census state prevalence estimates for these predictors. The results are state estimates that vary from 7.2% of the aged population ADL dependent in Alaska to 10.4% in Iowa and Nebraska. An alternative model regresses dependency on state mortality rates and produces similar but generally lower estimates.

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