U.S. Nursing Home Closings Hit Poor Neighborhoods Hardest

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.... " The country's minority population is aging at a steeper rate compared with

the white population, " said study lead author Zhanlian Feng, an assistant

professor of community health in the Center for Gerontology and Health Care

Research at Brown University in Providence, R.I. " And so the potential need for

long-term care is rising fastest in minority communities, even as nursing home

closings are happening more often in their areas. "

This disproportionate impact of nursing home closings on minority and low-income

communities " will have all sorts of implications in terms of access and quality

of care issues, " Feng added.

The findings are published in the Jan. 10 online edition and the May 9 print

issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine...

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