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  • Alberta's Resident Classification System for Long-Term Care Facilities. Part II: First-Year Results and Policy Implications

  • Cathy Charles, Corinne Schalm
  • Journal:
    Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement / Volume 11 / Issue 3 / Fall/automne 1992
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 November 2010, pp. 233-248

  • In 1988 the Alberta government introduced a new resident classification system to measure the care requirements of residents in the province's long-term care facilities, and to provide case-mix information for a new funding system. This paper presents the results of the first province-wide classification process, including data for both nursing homes and auxiliary hospitals on the distribution of residents by classification indicators and categories. Data on facility case-mix indices are also presented. The results show that throughout the nursing home and auxiliary hospital system there was substantial heterogeneity in resident care requirements. Comparing across facility type, there were fewer differences between nursing homes and auxiliary hospitals in the distribution of residents on behavioural indicators than there were on indicators of physical care requirements. The paper concludes by discussing policy and planning implications of the 1988 results and the classification system more generally.