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

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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.

Object Details

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

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 525

Classification and Topics

• 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

Contributors, Places and Time

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

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.4419/86788600
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/105443
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET