Public News Service: Report: Nursing Homes Sedate Too Many Residents (February 15, 2023) Groups that advocate for older Americans are speaking out about the overuse “Report: Nursing Homes Sedate Too Many Residents”
Category: Nursing Homes
Updated With New Information: 25 Common Nursing Home Problems & How to Resolve Them
Justice in Aging has updated its essential guide, 25 Common Nursing Home Problems—& How to Resolve Them. The revised guide includes focused information on how “Updated With New Information: 25 Common Nursing Home Problems & How to Resolve Them”
Nursing Home Residents Were Pushed to Sign Over Their Money to a Guy they Never Met Lawyers Say
NJ.Com: Nursing Home Residents Were Pushed to Sign Over Their Money to a Guy they Never Met Lawyers Say (February 9, 2023) Court records show “Nursing Home Residents Were Pushed to Sign Over Their Money to a Guy they Never Met Lawyers Say”
Black People More Likely to End up in Bad Nursing Homes
Richmond Pulse: Black People More Likely to End up in Bad Nursing Homes (December 9, 2022) Racial disparities exist in nursing home care, with Black residents “Black People More Likely to End up in Bad Nursing Homes”
A Bill of Rights for Long-Term Care Residents
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”
New Issue Brief: Improving Care Compare Website to Empower Consumers
The Biden Administration and other policymakers are actively discussing nursing facility reform, motivated in part by the death and isolation residents suffered during the COVID “New Issue Brief: Improving Care Compare Website to Empower Consumers”
Free Webinar: Racial Disparities in Nursing Facilities—and How to Address Them
This webinar took place on 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 “Free Webinar: Racial Disparities in Nursing Facilities—and How to Address Them”
ADA Class Action Seeks to Compel Massachusetts to Stop Unnecessary Institutionalization of People with Disabilities
Six people with disabilities who are unnecessarily institutionalized in nursing facilities, joined by the Massachusetts Senior Action Council, filed a class action lawsuit today in “ADA Class Action Seeks to Compel Massachusetts to Stop Unnecessary Institutionalization of People with Disabilities”
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”
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”
