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Research Article

Elderly Hispanics More Likely To Reside In Poor-Quality Nursing Homes

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  1. Mary L. Fennell ( [email protected] ) is a professor of sociology and community health at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
  2. Zhanlian Feng is an assistant professor of community health (research) at Brown University.
  3. Melissa A. Clark is an associate professor of community health at Brown University.
  4. Vincent Mor is chair of the Department of Community Health at Brown University.
PUBLISHED:January 2010No Accesshttps://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2009.0003

Abstract

The proportion of Hispanics age sixty-five and older who are living in nursing homes rose from 5 percent in 2000 to 6.4 percent in 2005. Although segregation in nursing homes seems to have declined slightly, elderly Hispanics are more likely than their non-Hispanic white peers to reside in nursing homes that are characterized by severe deficiencies in performance, understaffing, and poor care.

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