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Characteristics of Elderly Nursing Home Residents: Data From the 1995 National Nursing Home Survey Advance Data 289. Elderly nursing home residents were predominantly women, aged 75 years and over, white, non-Hispanic, and widowed according to a newly released report titled "Characteristics of Elderly Nursing Home Residents: Data From the 1995 National Nursing Home Survey." This report presents the sociodemographic characteristics, functional dependencies in the activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), dental status, primary admission diagnoses, types of services used, and source of payment of elderly nursing home residents. The data presented in this report were collected from the National Center for Health Statistics' 1995 National Nursing Home Survey. The survey sample consisted of current residents aged 65 years and over. Data Highlights:
Keywords: elderly nursing home residents, demographic characteristics, functional status, dental condition, primary diagnosis at admission, source of payment
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January 11, 2007
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