Functional disabilities and nursing home admittance
This paper examines how inability to perform activities of daily living relates to the risk of nursing home admission over older adults' life courses. Using longitudinal data on persons over age 50 from the Health and Retirement Study, we show that aging one year boosts the probability of havin...
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2012
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| Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6795 |
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| Institution: | Singapore Management University |
| Language: | English |