Arbeitspapier

Choice of Received Long-term Care – Individual Responses to Regional Nursing Home Provisions

Existing literature analyzing the choice of received long-term care by frail elderly (65+ years) predominantly focuses on physical and psychological conditions of elderly people as factors that influence the decision for a particular type of care. Until now, however, the regional in-patient long-term care supply has been neglected as influential factor in the individual's decision-making process. In this study, we analyze the choice of received long-term care by explicitly taking the regional supply of nursing homes into account. When estimating a discrete choice model, we distinguish between four different types of formal and informal care provision. We find that the decision for long-term in-patient care is significantly correlated with the regional supply of nursing home places, while controlling for physical and psychological conditions of the individual.

ISBN
978-3-86788-600-0
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 525

Classification
Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Analysis of Health Care Markets
Subject
informal care
formal care
choice of care
administrative data
nursing home supply

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Pilny, Adam
Stroka, Magdalena A.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
(where)
Essen
(when)
2014

DOI
doi:10.4419/86788600
Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Pilny, Adam
  • Stroka, Magdalena A.
  • Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)

Time of origin

  • 2014

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