Visit Your Local PBS Station PBS Home PBS Home Programs A-Z TV Schedules Watch Video Donate Shop PBS Search PBS

Online NewsHour health|watch
Today's Nursing Homes
bkrd image
Today's Nursing Homes
MainA HistoryVirtual TourNursing Home FactsChoosing a HomePublic Impressions

More than 1.6 million Americans live in nursing homes today, a number

home images home images

that is expected to rise as our population ages. Many
Americans, however, have negative impressions of
nursing homes. In fact, 45 percent think people are

home images

worse off after going into nursing homes than before they entered. Susan Dentzer reports on one man's effort to change that impression.

home images
The Eden AlternativeA PhilosophyFind an Eden HomeTranscript
Today's Nursing Homes
*Source: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer/Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School
of Public Health National Survey on Nursing Homes.


The NewsHour Health Unit is funded by a grant from:
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The PBS NewsHour is Funded in part by: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Additional Foundation and Corporate Sponsors
Program
Support
From:
Copyright © 1996- MacNeil/Lehrer Productions. All Rights Reserved.