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QuickStats: Percentage* of Adult Day Services Centers† That Use Any Telehealth,§ by U.S. Census Bureau Region — United States, 2022¶
Weekly / August 1, 2024 / 73(30);675
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* With 95% CIs indicated by error bars.
† Adult day services centers are state-regulated and further defined at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/npals/ NPALS-2022-survey-method-doc.pdf.
§ Based on a “yes” response by adult day services center directors to the following question: “In the last 12 months, did this center use any of the following types of telehealth tools to assess, diagnose, monitor, or treat participants? a. Telephone audio; b. Videoconference software with audio (e.g. Zoom, Webex, FaceTime).”
¶ Adult day services centers with missing data or with directors who responded “don’t know” were excluded.
In 2022, 46% of U.S. adult day services centers used any telehealth tools. Approximately one half of centers in the Northeast and West used any telehealth, compared with approximately one third of centers in the Midwest and South.
Supplementary Table: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/157543
Source: National Center for Health Statistics, National Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Study, 2022. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/npals
Reported by: Shannon Kindilien, PhD, skindilien@cdc.gov; Jessica P. Lendon, PhD.
Suggested citation for this article: QuickStats: Percentage of Adult Day Services Centers That Use Any Telehealth, by U.S. Census Bureau Region — United States, 2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2024;73:675. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7330a4.
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