{"id":4262,"date":"2018-07-23T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2018-07-23T10:00:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T14:00:56","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-residential-care-community-residents-with-an-advance-directive-by-census-division-national-study-of-long-term-care-providers-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2018\/07\/23\/4262\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Residential Care Community Residents with an Advance Directive by Census Division \u2014 National Study of Long-Term Care Providers, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6728a7.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/figures\/mm6728a7-F.gif\" width=\"448\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2016, 77.9% of residents in residential care communities had an advance directive documented in their files.<\/p>\n<p>By Census division, the highest percentage (87.8%) of residents who had an advance directive were located in the Mountain division, followed by residents in East North Central (83.7%), New England (80.0%), West North Central (78.9%), Pacific (77.6%), South Atlantic (77.4%), East South Central (76.4%), Middle Atlantic (68.8%), and West South Central (64.9%).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>National Center for Health Statistics, National Study of Long-Term Care Providers, 2016.\u00a0<a class=\"tp-link-policy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nsltcp\/index.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nsltcp\/index.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6728a7.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6728a7.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, 77.9% of residents in residential care communities had an advance directive documented in their files. By Census division, the highest percentage (87.8%) of residents who had an advance directive were located in the Mountain division, followed by residents in East North Central (83.7%), New England (80.0%), West North Central (78.9%), Pacific (77.6%), South<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53741,53742],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}