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• More than 50% of nursing home residents have no close relatives * 
  
• 46% have no living children *
  
• Average age is 78* *
  
• 70% are women **
  
• 82% are 65 or older **
  
• 36% are 85 or older **
  
• at least 55% are cognitively impaired *
  
• 66% are widowed *
  
• 74% of Texas residents are on Medicaid **
  
• Statewide average monthly cost for private pay resident is $3,549***

* National Center for Health Statistics, 1997

** Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services, December 2006

*** Health and Human Services Commission, September 2006

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