56% of major cerebral infarction survivors in a nursing home
at 1 year after the event. These figures were not markedly
different when we excluded people in the nursing home at the
time of stroke occurrence. Small numbers in the hemorrhage
subgroups precluded precise estimates of nursing home use.
However, it is apparent that should a patient with SAH
survive the event, the likelihood of nursing home admission is
quite low. Among the 10 survivors of SAH at 1 year after the
event, only 1 was still in the nursing home. Only 7 of 24 cases
of ICH survived 1 year; the 42% of patients us