objective To develop long-term care demand assessment indicators for the disabled elderly in nursing home.Methods The assessment indicators were formulated based on literature review,semi-structured interviews and expert meeting.Then,Delphi technique was used to identify the indicators through two rounds of consultation among 23 experts.Results The response rates of two rounds consultation were 74.19％ and 95.65％,and the authority coefficients of experts were 0.850 and 0.905.The coordination coefficients of two levels of indicators in the second round were 0.600 and 0.269,respectively (P＜0.001).The long-term care demand assessment indicators for the disabled elderly in nursing homes consisted of 5 first-level indicators and 40 seeond-level indicators.Conclusion The longterm care demand assessment indicators for the disabled elderly in nursing home is reliable and scientific,which can provide references for further developing long-term care contents for the elderly in the nursing home and standardizing quality of long-term care.

Objective To analyze the current situation and trends of nursing home research to provide reference for further study.Methods The GoPubMed retrieval tool was used to retrieve the research literatures on the nursing home in PubMed database with the subject term "Nursing Homes",then the Excel2010 was used to statistically analyze the items such as the published literature's time distribution,geographical distribution,journals distribution,high-authors,related subjects.Results In total,46 436 articles were retrieved out.The publication amount was increased year by year.The largest publication amount was the United States,but China ranked at 21.Meanwhile the top 10 cities,top 10 journals and top 10 authors in publication amount were mainly in European and American countries,while China did not enter the ranks.The main research fields were community care,long-term care,etc.Conclusion In recent years,the research literatures about nursing homes present upward trend as a whole,but which are mainly concentrated in European and American countries.China is relatively weaker,so there is still much rising space.