A higher value indicates that a larger proportion of residents have dementia.
This measure is a component of a facility’s/corporation’s profile. There are no desirable results for this measure.
This contextual measure examines the percentage of residents with dementia in a given long-term care facility or corporation. It is calculated by dividing the number of encounters with dementia indicated on the resident’s latest assessment by the total number of encounters involving an assessed resident in the most recent fiscal year. An encounter is defined as 1 resident’s stay in 1 facility from admission to discharge.
Unit of Analysis: Resident encounter
The total number of encounters involving an assessed resident in the most recent fiscal year
The total number of encounters involving an assessed resident in the most recent fiscal year where the latest assessment in the year included a diagnosis of dementia
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