Survey of Persons in Long-Term Care Institutions

This series contains data on six types of facilities that provided residential care to persons for an average stay of 30 days or longer. The six types are: nursing homes and old age homes; facilities for children; facilities for the physically handicapped; psychiatric institutions and asylums; facilities for the mentally handicapped; and other institu tions, such as those that offered care for chronic diseases and extended care facilities of short-term hospitals.

This health and social survey contains information on the institution, the resident or patient, and the resident's family. This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC). See the ARC catalog entry for this series for more information on this data and how to order it.