Care home managers’ perspectives on domiciliary dental care: a qualitative study

BMC Geriatrics

Table 2 Characteristics of participating care homes

	Care home
	1	3^a	4	5	6	7
Interview number	1 (n = 2)	2 (n = 1)	3 (n = 2)	4 (n = 1)	5 (n = 2)	6 (n = 2)
Size
<120 beds			X			X
>120 beds	X	X		X	X
Rural/urban	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban
Type of financing	Social profit	Public	Social profit	Social profit	Social profit	Public
Number of years working with DDC
5–10			X			X
10–15	X	X		X	X

^a Care home 2 is not included. Although residents, informal caregivers and staff were interviewed within the context of a larger study, the care home manager of CH2 was not available
^b Three financing models of long-term residential care exist in Belgium: public, private or social profit. The latter being non-profit organisations, without shareholders

ISSN: 1471-2318