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. 2017 Dec 22;33(3):367–369. doi: 10.1007/s11606-017-4257-x

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Population 65 years and older and hospital beds in the United States. Historical and projected population data are from the United States Census Bureau. Historical data on number of hospital beds are from the American Hospital Association annual surveys of hospitals. The number of hospital beds from 1960 and 1970 are from the article “The Nation’s Hospitals: A Statistical Profile,” Hospital Statistics. 1971. Aug 1;45(Part 2),447. Projected number of hospital beds after 2015 are calculated using three assumptions: (1) no further decline in hospital beds after 2015, (2) linear change at the post-2000 rate of decline, and (3) linear change at the overall rate of decline since 1960.