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EXTENDED LONGEVITY BRINGS IKCREASED DEPENDENCY Currently there are 40,300 elderly Minnesotans In mirs- ing homes and 40 percent of these residents are of r W; In addition, there are about 66,000 older people in lay nesota Irving In the community who need the help o' 1' least one other person to live Independently These elderly require help with eating, bathing using the loilet. dressing, home medical care, housekeeping, transporta tion, shopping, money management and decision - making, and are Irequently as impaired as their nursing home counterparts It Is this population which is at risk of institutronai placement, especially those In their 80 s a -id 90's who.lrvtalone Familim OF the bulk of care needed by this depen- dent segment of the older population, sometimes aug- mented by community support services and rnedical care The range of medical social community and insti- tutional services needed by chronically dependent older people is called long -terra care MINNESOTA'S LONG-TERM CARE SYSTEM When most people think of long -terra care, they irnme- diately think of nursing home care Long-term care and nursing homes are not synonymous. however Long -tern care Includes a continuum of services from homemaker home health aide, home nursing and adult day-care to rehabilitation sheltered housing and nursing home care Long-term rare can be provided in the home in a nurs- Ing home or in specially designed housing for the elderly It ranges from very Intensive and expensive services - 24 hour care --to occasional help around the house from trends or relatives FIGURE 3 Breakdown of Public Expenditures for Long -Term Care of the Elderly in Minnesota 1180 400 350 300 250 Z a: 200 OILQ J O J 1,41 0 10 t0TA1 I'I'HI i, I x11f NI) . While it Is true that long-term care Include a _ - uurn of services which arrn provided both by G•_'eSs als and family members Minnesota s long -le, - tern relies extensively on nursing home carer nursing homes to care for the elderly is near, national average In Minnesota 9 percent of population is Institutionalized compared to lus* percent nationally Moreover the state ranks the number of nursing hornq beds per 1 000 our nursing home spending s S126 per cape':- :.3 to S68 in the United States as a whole Nun -institutional forms of care called in-Mor-e a- community -based services are unclerdeveloced :- '! nesota compared to the institutional system J' e,�•, public dollar spent on long tern care only 10 -er *s s Of every public dollar spent or long-term care. only 10 cents is spent (in In home and community support services