Co-Locating Older Retirement Home Residents : Uncovering an Under-Researched Population via Postal Code

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BACKGROUND: Retirement home residents represent a growing proportion of older Ontarians who cannot be identified within existing administrative databases.

OBJECTIVE: This article aims to develop an approach for determining, from an individual's postal code, their likelihood of residing in a retirement home.

METHODS: We identified 748 licensed retirement homes in Ontario as of June 1, 2018, from a public registry. We developed a two-step evaluation and verification process to determine the probability (certain, likely or unlikely) of identifying a retirement home, as opposed to other dwellings, within a postal code.

RESULTS: We identified 274 (36.7%) retirement homes within a postal code certain to indicate that a person was residing in a retirement home, 200 (26.7%) for which it was likely and 274 (36.7%) for which it was unlikely. Postal codes that were certain and likely identified retirement homes with a capacity for 59,920 residents (79.9% of total provincial retirement home capacity).

CONCLUSION: It is feasible to identify a substantive cohort of retirement home residents using postal code data in settings where street address is unavailable for linkage to administrative databases.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante - 16(2020), 2 vom: 17. Nov., Seite 69-81

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Brath, Hana [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Sanghun J [VerfasserIn]
Bronskill, Susan E [VerfasserIn]
Rochon, Paula A [VerfasserIn]
Stall, Nathan M [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 11.10.2021

Date Revised 02.11.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.12927/hcpol.2020.26352

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM319022544