Individuals generally enter nursing homes or rehabilitation facilities for short-term recovery after surgeries or falls or permanently when they become unable to care for themselves but do not require hospitalization. According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, 1,383,700 US citizens were living in nursing homes in 2012. Almost 80 percent of residents were non-Hispanic white, and almost 70 percent were women. About 42 percent were eighty-five or over, and another nearly 28... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2022. 3p.