QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
National Snapshot: Who is the Senior Living Resident?
AGE PROFILE 2012
Under 65 7% 65-74 10% 75-84 32%
3% 51% 85 & older
Hispanic 6%
Non-Hispanic Other
4% 2014
75-84 30% 65-74 10% Under 65 7%
53% 85 & older
Non-Hispanic Black
87%
Non-Hispanic White
RACE 2012 3%
Hispanic 9%
Non-Hispanic Other
4%
Non-Hispanic Black
84%
Non-Hispanic White
2014
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cross the senior living industry, leaders continue to look for ways to improve quality of life for residents
2012
while making operations more efficient. Creating an optimum environment is easier to implement with a clear picture of what defines a senior living resident and trending issues within the population. To address that, Argentum compiled
national and state snapshots of senior living residents in communities throughout the 50 states and Washington, D.C. (Here, you’ll see an overview of the national profile and select state highlights; more specific state-by-state data is available to Argentum members in Argentum Quarterly Issue 4 2017 available for download at
argentum.org/aq.)
61% Bathing
22 SENIOR LIVING EXECUTIVE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018 Toileting
37%
To develop the snapshots, Argentum TYPE OF ASSISTANCE NEEDED
turned to the resources published by the Centers for Disease Control and Preven- tion (CDC), “Long-Term Care Providers and Services Users in the United States: Data from the National Study of Long- Term Care Providers, 2013-2014” and the U.S. Census Bureau. The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) pub- lishes data, such as demographic, health, and functional characteristics data, drawn from multiple sources, primarily surveys of long-term care settings and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administra- tive records*. The snapshots include key demographic variables—age, gender, and race—along with the frequencies of spe-
45% Dressing
62% Bathing
18% Eating
39% Toileting
cific diagnoses, adverse events, and types of assistance needed.
2014
Evaluating Trends The CDC released a similar report in De- cember 2013 with data collected during 2012. A comparison of the 2012 data to the most recent 2014 report shows more senior living residents in 2014 are 85 and older, confirming what many senior living leaders have been observing—there’s an increase in the number of older residents calling senior living home. The CDC data sets show a slight change in race and eth- nicity among senior living residents from 2012 to 2014. During that time, there’s been an increase in the “other” category and a
47% Dressing
20% Eating
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