The demographic aspects of long-term care reflect the need for research and teaching related to the medical and social factors that lead to nursing-home admission and complicate the nursing-home stay. The number of residents in nursing homes in the United States has increased rapidly over recent years, reaching 1.3 million in 1978, and is projected to approach 2 million by the year 2000.1 This projected growth reflects the successful prevention and treatment of acute diseases, which have permitted more people to reach the eighth, ninth, and tenth decades of life, the years when chronic diseases take their toll.The successful . . .
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Edward L. Schneider (1983) studied this question.
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