Prediction Model for Elderly Remaining at Home Versus Entering Care

A prediction model for whether elderly individuals remain at home or enter care homes. The dataset is a 9.5 KB Excel file authored by Paul Clarkson and last updated on April 15, 2026. It is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license on the figshare platform.

Use Cases

• Develop a binary classification model to predict 'remaining at home' versus 'entering care home' based on the described prediction task.
• Analyze risk factors for care home admission based on the model's implied features.
• Benchmark new predictive algorithms against the provided model for elderly care outcomes.

Strengths

• Dataset is openly licensed (CC-BY-4.0) for reuse and modification.
• File size is small (9.5 KB), facilitating quick download and inspection.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Paul Clarkson via figshare

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-15 17:36:45; freshness should be verified.