“Study proving longevity benefits of senior living is something for operators to ‘jump up and down’ about”

“Study proving longevity benefits of senior living is something for operators to ‘jump up and down’ about,” by Kimberly Bonvissuto, McKnights Senior Living

“Older adults who live in senior living communities live longer, receive more healthcare services and benefit from greater rehabilitative and preventive care within the first two years of moving into a community compared with their peers living in the greater community, according to new research from NORC at the University of Chicago. … The report looked at outcomes in continuing care retirement communities, independent living, assisted living and memory care communities related to six measures of longevity: mortality, days alive, days away from home due to adverse health events, days receiving home healthcare, preventive and rehabilitative health services days, and days on antipsychotic medications. The study did not include skilled nursing residents.”

 

LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform:

Longevity benefits accrue in venues of care that are almost entirely private pay, but do not include nursing homes that are mostly Medicaid funded. Could you ask for a better reason to own “stay-out-of-a-nursing-home” insurance?