Trends in Institutional Care of the Aged
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States making payments to recipients of old-age assistance, aid to the blind, or aid to the permanently and totally disabled who reside in institutions have been required since July 1.1953. to designate an authority for establishing and maintaining standards in such institutions. How many of the Nation’s aged persons do these institutions care for? In what ways do they differ from the older men and women in the general population? The article below describes trends since 1900 in the use of institutional facilities by aged persons and the size and composition of the aged institutional population in 1950.
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