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: Nursing Homes
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
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”
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”
Arbitration Has Come to Senior Living. You Don’t Have to Sign Up.
The New York Times: Arbitration Has Come to Senior Living. You Don’t Have to Sign Up. (September 24, 2022) What the Jinks family wanted was “Arbitration Has Come to Senior Living. You Don’t Have to Sign Up.”
Regulators try to stop unlawful nursing home debt collection
ABC News: Regulators try to stop unlawful nursing home debt collection (September 8, 2022) WASHINGTON — Nursing homes and debt collectors are flouting a law that “Regulators try to stop unlawful nursing home debt collection”
Issue Brief: Beyond Spending—Measuring California’s Progress Towards Equitable HCBS
Many aging adults and people with disabilities will need support and assistance throughout their lifetimes. Medicaid (or Medi-Cal in California) is an important payer for “Issue Brief: Beyond Spending—Measuring California’s Progress Towards Equitable HCBS”
Reflections on My Mom’s Eviction
The Bulwark: Reflections on My Mom’s Eviction – A case study in how senior care facilities are kicking out elderly people, and getting away with “Reflections on My Mom’s Eviction”
