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. 2021 May 17;9:661592. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.661592

Table 2.

Long-term care use by race and ethnicity, US 2015–16.

Nursing home % Residential care % US Population ages 65 and over %
Latino 5.4 3.1 7.7
Non-Latinx White 75.1 81.4 78.3
Non-Latinx Black 14.3 4.1 8.7
Non-Latinx other 5.1 11.5 5.3

Numbers may not total 100% due to rounding. Source: Harris-Kojetin L, Sengupta M, Lendon JP, Rome V, Valverde R, Caffrey C. Long-term care providers and services users in the United States, 2015–2016. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat 3 (43). 2019. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_03/sr03_43-508.pdf.