Trends in Nursing Home Expenditures: Implications for Aging Policy

  • 1 January 1980
    • journal article
    • Vol. 2  (2) , 65-70
Abstract
Nursing home care has become a major governmental responsibility. Public expenditures for nursing home care amounted to $7.3 billion in 1977. They represented 57.2 percent of the $12.8 billion nursing home bill nationally and 12 percent of public spending on all personal health care. Nursing home care absorbs more than one-third of all Medicaid expenditures.