For most people who move into a nursing home, do you think being in the nursing home makes them better or worse off than they were before, or doesn’t it make much difference?

19 Better
41 Worse off
23 No difference
17 Don't know/Refused

If you had been hospitalized and required round-the-clock medical care in an institution would you prefer to keep getting care in the hospital or to get care at a nursing home, or wouldn't it make much difference to you?

39 Hospital
12 Nursing home
43 No difference
5 Don't know/Refused

Survey by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Methodology: Fieldwork conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, June 2-5, 2005 and based on telephone interviews with a national adult sample of 1,202.