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SUBMITTER: Diepstraten M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7187432 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Diepstraten Maaike M Douven Rudy R Wouterse Bram B
Health economics 20200131 5
We examine the impact of the accessibility of an older individual's house on her use of nursing home care. We link administrative data on the accessibility of all houses in the Netherlands to data on long-term care use of all older persons from 2011 to 2014. We find that older people living in more accessible houses are less likely to use nursing home care. The effects increase with age and are largest for individuals aged 90 or older. The effects are stronger for people with physical limitation ...[more]