Nursing Home Residents 65 Years Old and Over by Selected Characteristics statistics

[1,385 represents 1,385,000. Covers nursing and related care homes in the conterminous United States that had three or more beds, were staffed for use by residents, and routinely provided nursing and personal care services. Excludes places providing only room and board and places serving specific health problems. Based on the National Nursing Home Survey, a two-stage survey sample of nursing homes and their residents. Subject to sampling variability]


						Percent of
	Number	Percent		Percent of	Functional	elderly
Characteristic \1	(1,000)	distri-	Item	elderly	status	residents
		bution		residents		receiving
						assistance

1995

Total ²	1,385	100.0	Type of aids used:		ADL's: ⁹
			Wheelchair	64.5	Bathing, showering	96.3
Male	343	24.7	Walker	24.9	Dressing	86.6
Female	1,043	75.3	Hospital bed	78.4	Eating	45.1
					Transferring in or
65 to 74 years	242	17.5	Vision impaired	26.4	out of beds or chair	23.8
75 to 84 years	586	42.3	Hearing impaired	22.4	Using toilet room	57.8
85 years and over	557	40.2
			Type of nursing care:		IADL's: ¹⁰
White	1,240	89.5	Skilled care ³	46.1	Care of personal
Black	118	8.5	Intermediate care ⁴	50.4	possessions	77.6
			Residential care ⁵	3.5	Managing money	69.2
Hispanic	32	2.3			Securing personal
Non-Hispanic	1,276	92.1	Primary source		items	76.8
			of payment: ⁶		Using telephone	69.2
Living quarters:			Private sources ⁷	28.9
Private residence	510	36.8	Medicare	12.7
Retirement home	31	2.2	Medicaid	55.7
Board and care and/or			Other ⁸	2.7
residential facility	69	4.9
Nursing home	160	11.6
Hospital	562	40.6
Mental health facility	15	1.1

1997

Total ²	1,465	100.0	Type of aids used:		ADL's: ⁹
			Wheelchair	62.3	Bathing, showering	96.2
Male	372	25.4	Walker	25.2	Dressing	87.2
Female	1,093	74.6	Hospital bed		Eating	45.0
					Transferring in or
65 to 74 years	198	13.5	Vision impaired	27.1	out of beds or chair	25.4
75 to 84 years	528	36.1	Hearing impaired	23.7	Using toilet room	56.2
85 years and over	738	50.4
			Type of nursing care:		IADL's: ¹⁰
White	1,295	88.4	Skilled care ³	47.8	Care of personal
Black	137	9.4	Intermediate care ⁴	47.8	possessions	77.1
			Residential care ⁵	3.6	Managing money	72.2
Hispanic	32	2.2			Securing personal
Non-Hispanic	1,340	91.5	Primary source		items	76.2
			of payment: ⁶		Using telephone	62.2
Living quarters:			Private sources ⁷	28.2
Private residence	472	32.2	Medicare	29.7
Retirement home	34	2.3	Medicaid	38.2
Board and care and/or			Other ⁸	3.8
residential facility	67	4.6
Nursing home	179	12.2
Hospital	651	44.5
Mental health facility	19	1.3

1 At time of admission.
2 Includes other and/or unknown, not shown separately.
3 Skilled care indicates the greatest degree of medical care. Every patient is under the supervision of a physician and the facility has a transfer agreement with a nearby hospital. Twenty-four hour nursing care is provided with a physician on call to furnish medical care in case of emergency.
4 Intermediate care is provided to individuals who do not require the degree of care or treatment normally given by a hospital or skilled nursing facility, but who do require health-related institutionalized care above the level of room and board.
5 Residential care usually means providing residents with room, board, laundry services, some forms of personal care, and recreational activities and social services.
6 In month before interview.
7 Includes private insurance, own income, family support, social security benefits, and retirement funds.
8 Includes supplemental security income, welfare, religious organizations, foundations, agencies, Veterans Administration contract, pensions, or other compensation, payment source not yet determined, and other and unknown sources.
9 Activities of daily living.
10 Instrumental activities of daily living.

Source: U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, Advance Data, Nos. 289 and 312, July 2, 1997 and April 25, 2000.

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These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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