National Long-Term Care Survey, 1982-1984 / United States Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, and Health Care Financing Administration.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 8654.

ICPSR ; 8654

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frail older people--Long-term care--United States.

Frail older people.

Chronically ill--Long-term care--United States.

Chronically ill.

Older people with disabilities--Long-term care--United States.

Older people with disabilities.

Caregivers--United States--Statistics.

Caregivers.

Medical care surveys--United States.

Medical care surveys.

Older people with disabilities--Long-term care.

Chronically ill--Long-term care.

Frail older people--Long-term care.

United States.

Genre:

Statistics.

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

Third ICPSR Edition.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1987.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

The 1982-1984 National Long-Term Care Survey (NLTCS) was designed to provide a database describing the population of chronically disabled elderly persons in the United States in terms of their health and functional status, and their patterns of use of Medicare, hospital care, home health services, and institutional care. The 1982 Survey focused on the home-dwelling impaired elderly aged 65 and over. A Survey of Informal Caretakers of those elderly respondents was also conducted in 1982. Information was collected on the number and type of physical limitations affecting aged persons, the kind and amount of help received by impaired individuals, the costs of health care services, the ability of impaired persons and their families to pay for care, and the number and characteristics of impaired individuals not receiving care. The linked Survey of Informal Caregivers collected data on demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, the relationship between caregivers and impaired persons, the kinds of care provided, expense and time costs, inconveniences and problems, mobility and work restrictions due to the caretaking, and feelings about caregiving. The 1984 Survey not only reinterviewed the surviving 1982 home-dwelling cohort, but also interviewed for the first time the chronically impaired in the original screening file who in 1982 had been institutionalized, or who had become 65 and impaired since 1982. Further data were collected from the next-of-kin of deceased members of the 1982 and 1984 samples and from Medicare Part A and Part B Home Health Agency payments during the years 1978-1986. Thus, the expanded scope of the 1982-1984 NLTCS recorded changes in the elderly population over time with respect to impairments, use of medical services and informal care, residence at home or in institutions, and mortality.... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08654

Contents:

Part 1: 1982 Cohort Interviews; Part 2: 1982 Screener; Part 3: 1982 Informal Caregivers; Part 4: 1984 Cohort, 1982 and 1984 Interviews; Part 5: 1978-1986 Medicare File for 1984 Cohort; Part 6: 1982 Sample Person; Part 7: 1982 Helper; Part 8: 1982 Household Member; Part 9: 1982 Children; Part 10: Dictionary Listings and Univariate Statistics for Sample Person, Helper, Household Member, and Children Files

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

Start: 1982; and end: 1984.

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