Exploring the cost and value of private versus shared bedrooms in nursing homes: Final Report to The Commonwealth Fund
Final report from a project funded by The Commonwealth Fund that explores factors that differentiate private from shared bedrooms in nursing homes. The paper explores psychosocial and satisfaction factors, clinical factors, operational factors, and building/construction cost factors. This is complete report (58 pages) which includes more detailed analysis of the literature and more detailed information about the construction costs analysis (basis used) than was published in The Gerontologist. Author: Margaret P. Calkins, PhD