Alzheimer's Special Care Units and Top Management in Nursing Homes
ResearchPosted on rand.org 2001Published in: Journal of Mental Health and Aging, v. 7, no. 2, 2001, p. 273-285
Organizational demography is used to show that the demographic characteristics of the nursing home administrator and the director of the nursing (DON) team have an impact on a facility having an Alzheimer's special care unit. Controlling for 13 organizational and environmental factors, the results show that both the aggregate and dissimilarity measures for education and professional involvement significantly affect the likelihood of whether a nursing home has adopted an Alzheimer's special care unit. The author discusses these results in terms of their significance of nursing homes and top management.
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- Copyright: Springer Publishing Company
- Availability: Non-RAND
- Year: 2001
- Pages: 13
- Document Number: EP-200100-53
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