Description of the data source, numerator, denominator, survey questions, and other relevant details about the national estimate.
Number of persons aged 65 years and over who have one or more activities of daily living (ADL) limitations OR who are living in a long-term care facility
Number of persons aged 65 years and over
From the 2007 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey:
[NUMERATOR:]
Because of a health or physical problem, do you have any difficulty with the following?
Long-term care facility residents are assumed to have at least one ADL limitation and are therefore included under this objective as having a moderate to severe functional limitation.
This Indicator uses Age-Adjustment Groups:
Any change to the objective text, baseline, target, target-setting method or data source since the Healthy People 2020 launch.