This article was originally published on Jun 11, 2009 and has been carried over from our previous website. Some legal details, dollar figures, and program rules may have changed since then — please contact us for current guidance.
Credit — Tim Takcas, TN elder law attorney extraordinaire
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_13/sr13_167.pdf
Data Highlights include:
- In 2004, there were 1.7 million nursing home beds in the U.S. compared with 1.9 million beds in 1999.
- The number of nursing home residents decreased from 1.6 million in 1999 to 1.5 million in 2004.
- Mental disorders were the second leading primary diagnosis among residents at time of interview (22%). This represents more than a 20-percent increase over the 1999 estimate, when 18% of nursing home residents had a primary diagnosis for a mental disorder at the time of interview.
- Almost 9 percent of current residents had a fall reported in the 30 days prior to the facility interview.
- About 65 percent of current nursing home residents had at least one type of advance directive.
- In the 90 days prior to the facility interview, almost 11 percent of current nursing home residents had at least one hospitalization or emergency department visit while in the care of the nursing home.