Nearly 400,000 elderly people are waiting to be admitted into special nursing homes, roughly matching the number of current residents, according to a survey released Monday.
The survey, conducted this month by Kyodo News on prefectural authorities, found that at least 382,000 people were on the waiting list for nursing homes.
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