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: --
We are in a phase of rapid change and innovation in long-stay care for people with dementia.
Although numbers in certain categories were small this held true for short-, mediumand long-stay inmates.
Some respite care residents felt that the homes that they went to were depressing, particularly the state of other long-stay residents.
These people have special needs in long-stay care.
Present policies favor development of the long-stay and medium-stay sectors and reduction of the short-stay sector.
At least two-thirds of the elderly long-stay patients were admitted before their sixty-fifth birthday.
The mortality of long-stay patients following interhospital relocation.
The findings support the original theory that introducing consultant medical supervision into long-stay care would foster rehabilitation.
