Mississippi's long-term care (nursing home and home health) patients are primarily disabled elderly people, who make up 20 percent of the 2025 projected population above age 65. Projections place the number of people in this age group at approximately 642,506 by 2025, with more than 186,327 disabled in at least one essential activity of daily living.
15 Miss. Code. R. 9-99-1.4.7