Tag: nursing home
About one fifth will escape totally, and one quarter will require extensive care. My colleagues and I just completed the first of a three-part series of briefs on the need for long-term care and the resources available to cover it. The possibility of needing care later in life is a real concern for late-career workers…
About 13 percent of the older people in a recent study – average age 74 – who were initially living independently moved into a nursing home within five years. Perhaps because they know their vulnerabilities, their expectations of whether they would one day need nursing home care helped predict their actual nursing home use, t…
