0 relating to someone or something that stays for a long time in a place, or to a place where someone or something stays for a long time:
Fewer hospital staff seem prepared to accept long-stay patients as one of their functions.
The question to be resolved is how this can be maximised without damaging the quality of life of long-stay residents.
Long-term outcome of long-stay psychiatric in-patients considered unsuitable to live in the community.
There were 1,373 long-stay residents in these homes, and 452 were randomly selected for the study.
Using direct observation to record the behaviour of long-stay patients with dementia.
She does, however, have the most clear-cut alternatives - an active, independent life, or placement in long-stay care.
Related to the slow acceptance of the need to profile people with dementia systematically in long-stay care is the increasing use of very full records.
The findings support the original theory that introducing consultant medical supervision into long-stay care would foster rehabilitation.