Description: This book is therefore designed as a concise reference source of national data relevant to long-term care. Information on legislation, regulation, and recent policy issues accompanies summary statistics from published and unpublished censuses and surveys. Topic areas include population growth and change, mortality, morbidity and functional disability rates, family structure, dependency ratios and income, health care expenditures and utilization, and growth and change in the nursing home sector. Reflecting a recent policy shift in favor of home and community-based research and initiatives in long-term care, and a section on international comparisons gives a perspective on the long-term care policies of other industrialized countries.

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