Study: average residents younger, sicker.As Ohio goes, so goes the nation? With Ohio having many nursing home residents, trends in the Buckeye buckeye: see horse chestnut. buckeye Any of about 13 trees and shrubs of the genus Aesculus (family Hippocastanaceae), native to North America, southeastern Europe, and eastern Asia. State are important for the LTC LTC abbr. lieutenant colonel field to follow. Researchers have found that Ohio nursing home residents are on average younger today than they were ten years earlier; the proportion of nursing home residents under age 65 has doubled from 7 to 14%, and the average age has dropped from 83 to 79. At the same time, Ohio nursing home residents are more disabled than they were ten years ago. Nevertheless, the number of residents in nursing homes has dropped by 9.2% from 1994 to 2004. [GRAPHIC OMITTED] Sound familiar? To read the complete report from the Scripps SCRIPPS Cardiology A clinical trial–Scripps Coronary Radiation to Inhibit Proliferation Post Stenting Gerontology gerontology: see geriatrics. Center at Miami (Ohio) University, visit www.scripps.muohio.edu/scripps/publications/Review_of_NH_Res.html. |
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