Exhibit 23.2


          EXPLANATION CONCERNING ABSENCE OF CURRENT WRITTEN CONSENT OF
                               ARTHUR ANDERSEN LLP


         On September 4, 2002, Advocat Inc. (the "Company") announced that it
had appointed BDO Seidman, LLP to replace Arthur Andersen LLP as its independent
public accountants. Prior to the date hereof, the Arthur Andersen partners who
reviewed the Company's audited financial statements as of December 31, 2001 and
December 31, 2000 and for the years then ended resigned from Arthur Andersen
LLP. As a result, after reasonable efforts, the Company has been unable to
obtain Arthur Andersen's updated written consent to the incorporation by
reference in this document of Arthur Andersen's audit reports with respect to
the financial statements as of December 31, 2001 and December 31, 2000 and for
the years then ended for this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Under these
circumstances, Rule 437a under the Securities Act of 1933 permits the Company to
omit Arthur Andersen's updated written consent from this filing, and permits us
to incorporate by reference the financial statements, supplementary data and
financial statement schedule included herein into present and future
registration statements, without the written consent of Arthur Andersen LLP.

         Section 11(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 provides that if any part
of a registration statement at the time it becomes effective contains an untrue
statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, any
person acquiring a security pursuant to such registration statement (unless it
is proved that at the time of such acquisition such person knew of such untruth
or omission) may sue, among others, every accountant who has consented to be
named as having prepared or certified any part of the registration statement or
as having prepared or certified any report or valuation which is used in
connection with the registration statement, with respect to the statement in
such registration statement, report or valuation which purports to have been
prepared or certified by the accountant.

         As noted above, Arthur Andersen LLP has not consented to the
incorporation by reference of its audit report in this filing, although it has
consented to the incorporation by reference of its audit report contained in the
Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31,
2001. While the extent of any resulting limitations on recovery is unclear,
Arthur Andersen LLP may not be liable under Section 11(a) of the Securities Act
of 1933 because it has not consented to being named as an expert in any present
or future registration statement into which this Annual Report on Form 10-K may
be incorporated by reference, or the lack of a currently dated consent could
limit the time in which any such liability could be asserted. The Company
believes, however, that other persons who may be liable under Section 11(a) of
the Securities Act of 1933, including the Company's officers and directors, may
still rely on Arthur Andersen's audit reports as being made by an expert under
the due diligence defense provision of Section 11(b) of the Securities Act of
1933.

         The following is a copy of Arthur Andersen's consent which was issued
on March 28, 2002 and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as
Exhibit 23 to the Company's


annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001. This
consent has not been reissued by Arthur Andersen LLP.


                    CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS

         As independent public accountants, we hereby consent to the
incorporation of our reports dated March 11, 2002 included in this Form 10-K of
Advocat Inc. and subsidiaries into the Company's previously filed Registration
Statement File Numbers 33-93940, 33-93946 and 33-93950. It should be noted that
we have not audited any financial statements of the Company subsequent to
December 31, 2001 or performed any audit procedures subsequent to the date of
our report.

                               ARTHUR ANDERSEN LLP


Nashville, Tennessee
March 28, 2002