Study: Nursing Home Closures Clustered in Poor, Urban Areas

A new study out of Brown University has found that nursing homes in poor, urban areas have been hit especially hard over the past 10 years.

Between 1999 and 2008, nursing homes were most likely to close in predominantly black and Hispanic areas and nonhospital nursing homes were twice as likely to close in the poorest ZIP codes.

As a result, many poor and urban people have reduced access to long-term care. When these people do choose to enter a nursing home, their family members often have farther to travel to visit them.

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