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Nursing Home Use Expectations: The Influence of Family Structure

Lindabury, Jennifer Kate
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1272642887

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2010, Master of Gerontological Studies, Miami University, Gerontology.
This study analyzes expected nursing home use, and particularly the ways in which family structure is related to expectations. Using data from the 2006 Health and Retirement Study, I use multiple regression analysis to examine how measures of family structure (including daughters and sons, household structure, proximity to family, and previous and current marital status) are related to perceived nursing home risk. Results show that being female, age, ADL limitations, and having long term care insurance are related to increased expectation of use, while subjective health, having a parent or child in the household, or having a daughter are related to decreased expectations of use. Although several factors are related to expectations of nursing home use in ways consistent with actual use, marital status, having living brothers and sisters, and having local family are not significantly related to expected nursing home use. Policy implications of the findings are discussed.
Jennifer Bulanda Roebuck (Committee Chair)
Robert Applebaum (Committee Member)
Ronald Bulanda (Committee Member)
Families and Family Life; Gerontology; Health Care; Nursing; Social Research; Sociology; Womens Studies
expectations; nursing home use; family structure; cohabitation; HRS; caregiving; long term care; long term care insurance; health and retirement study;

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  • Lindabury, J. K. (2010). Nursing Home Use Expectations: The Influence of Family Structure [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1272642887

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lindabury, Jennifer. Nursing Home Use Expectations: The Influence of Family Structure. 2010. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1272642887.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lindabury, Jennifer. "Nursing Home Use Expectations: The Influence of Family Structure." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1272642887

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