Residential Care Subsidy and Mortality among Aged Care Facility Residents
This study examines the impact of residential care subsidies on mortality among aged residential care (ARC) facility residents in New Zealand. All applicants for residential care subsidies must undergo an interrail Home Care (HC) assessment before entering an ARC facility, providing a unique snapshot of individuals’ health status before facility entry. Preliminary findings suggest that conditioning on demographic, socioeconomic and pre-entry health characterises, subsidy recipients experience significantly lower mortality rates than non-recipients: respectively, 5.3, 3.7, 3 and 2.3 percentage points lower (17.1%, 7.5%, 4.8% and 3.1% compared to mortality rates among the non-recipients) in the first four years following HC assessment.