At what age do most people need long-term care?

At what age do most people need long-term care?

Karl Steinberg (Associate Medical Director, Sharp Mission Park Medical Group) gives expert video advice on: What is long-term care?; Why should I worry about long-term care?; Who needs long-term care? and more...

Eighty-five and up; into the nineties and hundreds, and they constitute a majority of people who reside in nursing facilities on a long term basis. But, it can happen at any age, and there's certainly people in younger age groups, including between sixty-five and eighty-five who require some degree of assistance that would constitute long term care.