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Park, Nan Sook; Zimmerman, Sheryl; Sloane, Philip D.; Gruber-Baldini, Ann L.; Eckert, J. Kevin – Gerontologist, 2006
Purpose: Residential care/assisted living describes diverse facilities providing non-nursing home care to a heterogeneous group of primarily elderly residents. This article derives typologies of assisted living based on theoretically and practically grounded evidence. Design and Methods: We obtained data from the Collaborative Studies of Long-Term…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Residential Care, Case Studies, Older Adults
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Chou, Shu-Chiung; Boldy, Duncan P.; Lee, Andy H. – Gerontologist, 2002
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the direction and magnitude of the effects among the components of resident satisfaction in residential aged care and to examine if the relationships among satisfaction components vary according to facility type (i.e., nursing home and hostel). Briefly, a hostel is a low-care facility in which…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Older Adults, Nursing Homes, Health Facilities