audreyh1
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One thing I always wonder about is whether a stay in a nursing home is reduced by staying in assisted living prior to that. Seems like it would be - a situation where with some extra assistance, or in an environment where some additional nursing can easily be brought in to help the person stay in place before needing to be transferred to skilled nursing facility (whether within a CCRC or not).When considering LTCi or a CCRC, I didn't find the "average" or "median" stay length to be a very useful statistic. After all, I wouldn't plan my withdrawal rate for a 50% probability of failure. It looks like about 10% of those who check in to a nursing home are still alive 5 years later. The numbers are from this study from the UK, but their average stay length matched the US fairly close, so I'm guessing the "longest lived 10% number is also fairly close.
Now, if we add that about 30% of people over 65 won't go into a nursing home at all before they die, then we have something like 8% of the population of people over 65 will be in a nursing home for more than 5 years.
FWIW.
If someone needs memory care unit, probably all bets are off. And those patients are the ones that tend to live longer (physically robust but mentally not there) and probably drive up the average stay.