LTC hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities were only surveyed starting 2018.
Data from previous years are from earlier reports from the same source, which can be found .
Residential care communities are defined by the CDC as: "Includes assisted living communities and other residential care communities (for example, personal care homes, adult care homes, board care homes, or adult foster care) that meet the study eligibility criteria."
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Number of long-term care service users in the U.S. 2012-2022, by setting
In 2022, there were a total of approximately *** million service users of long-term care (LTC) in the United States. The largest share of LTC users came from home health agencies, followed by hospice patients and nursing home residents. Although assisted living community providers accounted for the largest share of LTC providers, they only accounted for roughly ** percent of all LTC users. The number of service users of LTC has mostly increased from 2012, reaching a peak of *** million people in 2018. The large drop in numbers in 2020 was most likely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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