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Long-term Care Trajectories in Canadian Context: Patterns and Predictors of Publicly Funded Care

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  • Margaret J Penning
  • Denise S Cloutier
  • Kim Nuernberger
  • Stuart W S MacDonald
  • Deanne Taylor

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Objectives Drawing on a structural life course perspective (LCP), we examined the most common trajectories experienced by older long-term care (LTC; home and community-based care, assisted living, and nursing home care) recipients. The overall sequencing of care transitions was considered along with the role of social structural location, social and economic resources, and health factors in influencing them.MethodLatent class and latent transition analyses were conducted using administrative data obtained over a 4-year period for clients aged 65 and older (n = 2,951) admitted into publicly funded LTC in 1 Canadian health region.ResultsFour main LTC trajectories were identified within which a wider range of more specific or secondary subtrajectories were embedded. These were shaped by social structural factors (age, gender, rural–urban residence), social and economic resources (marital status, income, payment for services), and health factors (chronic conditions, functional and cognitive impairment and decline, problematic behaviors).DiscussionOur findings support the utility of a structural LCP for understanding LTC trajectories in later life. In doing so, they also reveal avenues for enhancing equitable access to care and the need for options that would increase continuity and minimize unnecessary, untimely, or undesirable transitions.

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  • Margaret J Penning & Denise S Cloutier & Kim Nuernberger & Stuart W S MacDonald & Deanne Taylor, 2018. "Long-term Care Trajectories in Canadian Context: Patterns and Predictors of Publicly Funded Care," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 73(6), pages 1077-1087.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:73:y:2018:i:6:p:1077-1087.
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    1. Maja Matanic Vautmans & Marijana Oreb & Sasa Drezgic, 2023. "Socioeconomic inequality in the use of long-term care for the elderly in Europe," Public Sector Economics, Institute of Public Finance, vol. 47(2), pages 149-176.
    2. Bo Hu & Javiera Cartagena-Farias & Nicola Brimblecombe, 2022. "Functional disability and utilisation of long-term care in the older population in England: a dual trajectory analysis," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 1363-1373, December.

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