CBA of Nursing Homes

 
   Lead Investigator:    Robert Brent
   Institution      :    Fordham University
   E-Mail           :    brent@fordham.edu
   Proposal ID      :    1295



   Proposal Description:
   I am doing a CBA of nursing homes, implicitly, nursing home avoidance.  I am using survival analysis to find out when a client typically dies, in a nursing home and not in a nursing home.  The difference is the number of months that someone living in a nursing home loses by being in the nursing home.  I then see how much of that difference can be explained by other factors (such as severity of dementia and other health determinants). Once I have controlled for these other factors, the months lost is valued to obtain the benefits of not being in a nursing home.