Investigating community-based care service factors delaying residential care home admission of community dwelling older adults and cost consequence.

"Declaration of Conflicts of Interest None. Declaration of Sources of Funding This paper draws on analysis done for a research project commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) (Reference ID: DVA-GEN 2019–20/736) titled Investigating Protective Factors of the DVA Community Nursing Program (available at https://www.dva.gov.au/documents-and-publications/protective-factors-dvas-community-nursing-program-2023); however, the subsequent cost analysis study was not part of the project funded by DVA. DVA provided service use data for the Community Nursing Programme cohort for the funded study, and subsequently also provided the aggregate programme-level costing data for the Community Nursing and Veterans’ Home Care programmes, used by the authors for the cost comparison. The funding body provided advice to the authors about the DVA Community Nursing Programme services and operation, and other relevant DVA benefits and entitlements, but had no influence in the study design, data analysis and interpretation of results. The opinions expressed therein are those of the author/s and do not necessarily reflect those of DVA. The Commonwealth does not give any warranty nor accept any liability in relation to the contents of this work. Professor Maria Inacio is supported by The Hospital Research Foundation Mid-Career Fellowship (MCF-27-2019) and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant (GNT119378)."

"Declaration of Sources of Funding This paper draws on analysis done for a research project commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) (Reference ID: DVA-GEN 2019–20/736) titled Investigating Protective Factors of the DVA Community Nursing Program (available at https://www.dva.gov.au/documents-and-publications/protective-factors-dvas-community-nursing-program-2023); however, the subsequent cost analysis study was not part of the project funded by DVA. DVA provided service use data for the Community Nursing Programme cohort for the funded study, and subsequently also provided the aggregate programme-level costing data for the Community Nursing and Veterans’ Home Care programmes, used by the authors for the cost comparison. The funding body provided advice to the authors about the DVA Community Nursing Programme services and operation, and other relevant DVA benefits and entitlements, but had no influence in the study design, data analysis and interpretation of results. The opinions expressed therein are those of the author/s and do not necessarily reflect those of DVA. The Commonwealth does not give any warranty nor accept any liability in relation to the contents of this work. Professor Maria Inacio is supported by The Hospital Research Foundation Mid-Career Fellowship (MCF-27-2019) and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant (GNT119378)."