Ethnic Media Services: A Bill of Rights for Long-Term Care Residents, November 17, 2022 Amid acute staffing shortages made worse by Covid advocates for older “A Bill of Rights for Long-Term Care Residents”
Category: Long Term Care
Free Webinar: Racial Disparities in Nursing Facilities—and How to Address Them
When: Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00pm ET Recent years have seen an increased—and overdue—focus on structural racism within the United States. “Free Webinar: Racial Disparities in Nursing Facilities—and How to Address Them”
Fact Sheet: Make the Medicaid Money Follows the Person Program Permanent
Most older adults say they want to remain at home as they age. An important federal program and rule help make this possible: the Medicaid “Fact Sheet: Make the Medicaid Money Follows the Person Program Permanent”
Aging Well and Equitably
The 19th News: Aging Well and Equitably (October 27, 2022) The 19th News, a solutions journalism online publication specializing in women and LGBTQ+ issues brought “Aging Well and Equitably”
Lawsuit Says Mass. Residents Unnecessarily Institutionalized in Nursing Homes Should Have Options for Independent Living
Boston Globe: Lawsuit Says Mass. Residents Unnecessarily Institutionalized in Nursing Homes Should Have Options for Independent Living (October 11, 2022) Six Massachusetts residents with disabilities “Lawsuit Says Mass. Residents Unnecessarily Institutionalized in Nursing Homes Should Have Options for Independent Living”
MIT’s Long-Term Care Fellows Aim High
McKnight’s Home Care: MIT’s Long-Term Care Fellows Aim High (October 3, 2022) Overhauling the long-term care system so that it is more equitable for workers “MIT’s Long-Term Care Fellows Aim High”
Placing a Loved on in Long-Term Care? Be Sure to Read the Fine Print
KJZZ: Placing a Loved on in Long-Term Care? Be Sure to Read the Fine Print (October 3, 2022) Putting a loved one in long-term care “Placing a Loved on in Long-Term Care? Be Sure to Read the Fine Print”
What Inclusion for all Means: California Embraces Master Plan for Older Adults
Ethnic Media Services: What Inclusion for all Means: California Embraces Master Plan for Older Adults (September 27, 2022) People over 65 are one of the “What Inclusion for all Means: California Embraces Master Plan for Older Adults”
Issue Brief: Racial Disparities in Nursing Facilities—and How to Address Them
Recent years have seen an increased—and overdue—focus on structural racism within the United States. The focus on “structural” racism—as compared to legal or explicit racism, “Issue Brief: Racial Disparities in Nursing Facilities—and How to Address Them”
Stuck in place: How older adults end up trapped inside their own homes
San Francisco Chronicle: Stuck in place: How older adults end up trapped inside their own homes (September 24, 2022) Seven months ago, Betty Gray could “Stuck in place: How older adults end up trapped inside their own homes”
