Authors: Joan Penrod and Jami Fletcher

This report highlights socio-demographic characteristics, functional and cognitive limitations, and diseases or medical conditions at admission for elderly Nebraskans admitted to nursing homes. The results of this study indicate that newly admitted residents are predominately female, unmarried, age 75 and older, white, and lived alone prior to admission. These findings are consistent with a comparable nationwide sample of people over age 65 admitted to nursing homes. Additionally, people admitted to Nebraska nursing homes have substantial health, cognitive and functional limitations, as is true of nursing home residents nationwide.

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