1st Edition

The Nursing Home Market Supply and Demand for the Elderly

By Jeffrey A. Rhoades Copyright 1998
162 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1998. While previous studies have explored factors affecting the utilization of nursing home care by the elderly, few have used a nationally representative sample, and fewer still have investigated how price as well as supply affects utilization. The major purpose of this study is to model the effects of supply and demand for nursing home care on the utilization of such care by... Read more
Chapter I. Introduction Chapter II. Review of Literature Chapter III. Methodology Chapter IV. Results Chapter V. Discussion

Biography

Jeffrey A. Rhoades

"The authorrgues that only by understanding the determinants of supply and demand for nursing home care can one expect to have any hope of understanding the potential impact of proposed nursing home care policy on utilization by the elderly." -- Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment