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What is the most common type of long-term care situation in the US?

I'd say the most common long-term care situation for patients in the US is probably the home setting, where they're getting significant care being provided by family members, most often a daughter, but it could be a spouse, it could be a son, a niece, or a variety of different relatives or loved ones who provide care. As far as more institutional settings, I'd say right now nursing facilities are probably the biggest place where people are getting long-term care. Right now I believe there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.4 million long-term care residents in nursing facilities, and I would comment that those people that are living in these nursing homes now are much sicker and have much higher care needs than they did even five years ago. So I think there's a shift that's going on now, and will probably continue to go on, where people are going to be moving more into lower levels of care like assisted living. It depends from state to state for what they're allowed to have in the assisted living setting. But I think the great majority of us, given the choice, would prefer being in an assisted living setting than an actual nursing home.

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