Caring for an aging population in a post-pandemic world: emerging trends in the U.S. older adult care industry
In this paper, we examine older adult care services after a global pandemic and identify new opportunities for care in a post-pandemic world, while recognizing the existing models that will continue successfully. Primary survey data was collected from both the supply side (n=29) and demand side (n=1...
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| description | In this paper, we examine older adult care services after a global pandemic and identify new opportunities for care in a post-pandemic world, while recognizing the existing models that will continue successfully. Primary survey data was collected from both the supply side (n=29) and demand side (n=134) of the U.S. older adult care system. The results indicate a trend in the demand side that customers’ preferences for senior care is moving towards de-institutional care options after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic; a development confirmed by the supply side, indicated by occupancy becoming a more challenging issue after pandemic outbreak. Findings also suggest a strong agreement between the demand and supply on the most important aspects of institutional care. Both customers and industry practitioners consider safety and quality of clinical services the top care priority. Lastly, staffing continues to be a major challenge for most institutional practitioners. As the first paper (to the best of our knowledge) that systematically evaluable the situation of the U.S. senior care industry after the pandemic outbreak, our timely results have pinpointed the emerging trends and provide many actionable implications for stakeholders such as care receivers, industry practitioners, and policy makers.
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:2988f1b9-0dbf-4140-8929-4c42899c47792025-03-04T11:39:51ZCaring for an aging population in a post-pandemic world: emerging trends in the U.S. older adult care industryInternet publicationhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_7ad9uuid:2988f1b9-0dbf-4140-8929-4c42899c4779EnglishSymplectic Elements2021Kong, LHu, KWalsman, MIn this paper, we examine older adult care services after a global pandemic and identify new opportunities for care in a post-pandemic world, while recognizing the existing models that will continue successfully. Primary survey data was collected from both the supply side (n=29) and demand side (n=134) of the U.S. older adult care system. The results indicate a trend in the demand side that customers’ preferences for senior care is moving towards de-institutional care options after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic; a development confirmed by the supply side, indicated by occupancy becoming a more challenging issue after pandemic outbreak. Findings also suggest a strong agreement between the demand and supply on the most important aspects of institutional care. Both customers and industry practitioners consider safety and quality of clinical services the top care priority. Lastly, staffing continues to be a major challenge for most institutional practitioners. As the first paper (to the best of our knowledge) that systematically evaluable the situation of the U.S. senior care industry after the pandemic outbreak, our timely results have pinpointed the emerging trends and provide many actionable implications for stakeholders such as care receivers, industry practitioners, and policy makers. |
| spellingShingle | Kong, L Hu, K Walsman, M Caring for an aging population in a post-pandemic world: emerging trends in the U.S. older adult care industry |
| title | Caring for an aging population in a post-pandemic world: emerging trends in the U.S. older adult care industry |
| title_full | Caring for an aging population in a post-pandemic world: emerging trends in the U.S. older adult care industry |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Caring for an aging population in a post-pandemic world: emerging trends in the U.S. older adult care industry |
| title_short | Caring for an aging population in a post-pandemic world: emerging trends in the U.S. older adult care industry |
| title_sort | caring for an aging population in a post pandemic world emerging trends in the u s older adult care industry |
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