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Date Added: June 07, 2008 08:24:02 PM

Nearly 70 percent of all today's 65-year-olds will need long-term care, researchers say. Twenty percent of those people will need it for more than five years, according to a study sponsored by the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry.

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