Thirty-nine percent of skilled nursing facilities experienced no COVID-related deaths during the year, while about two-thirds of independent living, 64% of assisted living and 61% of memory care prosperities experienced no related deaths. The analysis also found that COVID-19 deaths across senior housing correlated with how ill the average resident was and the amount of care they needed:
“The facts include that COVID-19 transmission is more likely with close person-to-person contact and mortality increases with age and comorbidities. This study shows senior housing isn’t homogeneous, and mortality was higher in property types whose residents, on average, are sicker and require higher levels of care,”
Brian Jurutka, NIC’s president and CEO, said in a statement.
SNFs and memory care had the highest adjusted mortality rates from COVID-19 with 59.6 and 50.4 deaths per 1,000 residents, respectively.
Resident deaths in independent living settings were statistically comparable to the rates of death for older adults living in non-congregate settings in the same geographic area. Independent living had average adjusted mortality rates of 5.9 per 1,000. That’s compared to the 6.7 per 1,000 found for seniors living in the same counties. For Aging in Place Planning purposes, that means that independent and non-congregant settings showed no higher mortality rate.
The analysis included data from 3,817 senior housing properties across 113 counties in five states: Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, and Pennsylvania.
Source: D. Brown, "39 percent of nursing homes had no COVID deaths: report," McKnight's Long-term Care News (June 3, 2021) (last accessed 6/3/2021).
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