Ian “Matt” Nelson (Scripps Gerontology Center) is quoted in a story about younger residents in Ohio’s nursing home facilities.

Study: Ohio nursing homes skew younger

CRAIN’S CLEVELAND BUSINESS - LYDIA COUTRé - CLEVELAND, OH

Though nursing homes are considered long-term care options for the elderly, Ohio is seeing a trend of younger residents using the facilities.

In the state, one in five long-stay Medicaid residents are under the age of 65 — a rate that's higher than the national average, according to a study from Miami University's Scripps Gerontology Center.

"We've typically had this image of a nursing home of being older adults, and now they are middle older adults," said Ian Matt Nelson, research scholar at the center and co-author of the report.

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• Read more on Crain's Cleveland Business website
• Research brief "A New Group of Long-Stay Medicaid Nursing Home Residents: The Unexpected Trend of Those Under Age 65 Using Nursing Homes in Ohio."

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