"86% of long-term care facility recipients take medication for central nervous system"

A study found that 86.8% of the elderly who use long-term care facility services take drugs for the central nervous system.

The National Health Insurance Service released the results of an analysis of the use of drugs for the central nervous system of more than 89,000 long-term care recipients last year.

Of the total long-term care service users, 79.2% took drugs for the central nervous system for more than one day per year.

However, 86.8% of facility recipients took drugs for the central nervous system for more than 1 day a year, 9.6% higher than home care recipients.

In addition, the rate of taking drugs for the central nervous system for more than 28 days per year was 76.7% for facility recipients and 56.6% for home care recipients, which was 20.1 percentage points different.

The long-term care service is a social insurance system that provides care services to the elderly over the age of 65 who have difficulty in daily life or to those with senile diseases such as dementia even if they are under the age of 65.

Facility benefit recipients can enter nursing facilities and receive physical activity support services, and home care recipients can receive care services at home.