Twenty-Four-Year Demographic Trends of a Brazilian Long-Term Care Institution for the Aged

The increased trend of the mean age at admission and the median age of the residents may reflect improvements in health, socioeconomic status, life expectancy, and the development of protective regulations for older adults in Brazil. The increased trend of the median LOS may reflect the aforementioned improvements, but we expect a future inversion of this trend due to the admission of older, sicker, and more functionally dependent elderly individuals.