What are the demographic trends facing our industry?

We know that:

• More than 40 percent of long term and skilled care facility residents exhibit signs of clinical depression or anxiety
• 40 percent of dementia patients have additional psychiatric symptoms
• Untreated depression and anxiety in nursing home residents adds significantly to staff time required and thus costs
• Nationally, among the two-thirds of skilled care facility residents with some type of behavioral disorder, fewer than five percent receive treatment