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Taking a Closer Look at Nursing Homes
Editor’s note: This is eighth in a series of posts by guest blogger Michelle Seitzer. For a series recap, please see links below. In the past, when all else failed (or when individuals outlived family...
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Put the Residents of Illinois Nursing Homes First
Hey everybody – Jenn here from the Communications team keeping you in the loop on what’s up in Springfield this week. Let’s talk nursing home reform… In 2010 the Illinois General Assembly passed...
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AARP to Legislators: Think Before You Cut
Hey blog readers – Jenn here from the communications team. This week I caught up with our staffer David Vinkler down in our Springfield office. He’s our expert on all things related to the state budget...
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The Takeaway: Nursing Homes Ill-Prepared For Natural Disasters
Emergency Plans Lack Specifics: Will your loved-one’s nursing home be ready should emergency arise? Don’t count on it: A recent government investigation found many nursing homes—even those in...
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Many of us worry about ending up in a nursing home, a fear that surely has to do with the shocking stories we’ve read over the years: neglect and abuse at the hands of caregivers, the inappropriate use...
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The Takeaway: Sex and the Nursing Home
I’ll admit I’ve not thought much about the sex lives of nursing home residents. But several Australian researchers have, with particular concern for patients with dementia. In a new paper in the...
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What Happened to the Welcome Mat? Nursing Homes and Gay Elders
Living in a nursing home is not easy. When you are gay, it can be so much more complicated. Unless you’re at a progressive long-term care facility, staff (and fellow residents) may act less than warm...
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Nursing Homes Increasingly Slip In Arbitration Agreements, But Think Twice...
Anyone who has or may someday have family in a nursing home, take note: A mandatory arbitration agreement is probably not in your family’s best interest. Though such agreements are becoming...
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Caregivers: Program to Target At-Home Care to Cut Back on Repeat...
It’s hard to find a more stunning statistic: Nearly 45 percent of hospitalizations among nursing home residents enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid are avoidable. Because of their complex and chronic...
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Nursing Homes Overbilled Medicare By $1.5 Billion, Feds Say
By Jenni Bergal, Kaiser Health News At a time when the nursing home industry is lobbying Congress to avoid cuts in Medicare payments, a federal watchdog agency is reporting that taxpayers overpaid...
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Can Home-Delivered Meals Keep You Out of a Nursing Home?
A new study out of Brown University offers food for thought. It shows that one way to keep people out of nursing homes — so they can age in place, at home — is for states to offer more home-delivered...
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Long-Term Care Ombudsmen Face Challenges To Independence
By Jenni Bergal for Kaiser Health News This story was produced in collaboration with USA Today. The 2.3 million elderly or disabled people living in nursing homes or assisted living centers might not...
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In the Senate, a Symbolic Thumbs-Up for Older Americans
Bernie Sanders, a feisty Independent from Vermont who often votes with his Democratic colleagues, scored a modest — if largely symbolic — victory for older Americans as the Senate pulled an all-nighter...
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Sex and Dementia: What Are Our Rights When We’re Not Ourselves Any More?
A recent Bloomberg article recapped an incident in a nursing home in which an employee walked in on two elderly residents, both diagnosed with dementia, having intercourse. The man was in his late 70s,...
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‘Life and Death in Assisted Living’— Investigative Project Premieres
If you have a loved one in assisted living — or see that possibility on the horizon — this week brings some essential TV viewing and reading. “Life and Death in Assisted Living” is an investigative...
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Help! Who Will Care for Baby Boomers When They Need It?
Many hands may not really make light work, but at least they help. The abundance of baby boomers means many can care for their aging parents. But a sobering report released today by the AARP Public...
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She Gives Donated Flowers a New Life
Petal Share founder Heather Lawson Heather Lawson was admiring the gorgeous floral arrangements on a reality-TV show about weddings when it hit her: After the big event, the flowers would be going into...
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Modernizing Medicaid: Putting Home- and Community-Based Services on Equal...
The AARP Public Policy Institute (PPI) had a Solutions Forum on Oct. 30 to discuss ways to ensure that Medicaid beneficiaries get the supportive services they need in settings that they choose (See...
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Do Granny Cams in Nursing Homes Protect or Intrude?
Imagine that your mother is in a long-term care facility. On your weekend visits, she’s told you that the nurses and aides there are taking things from her, pinching her and refusing to change her...
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New Government Website Tackles Long-Term Care Infection
click image to enlarge You’ve heard it before. You go into the hospital for one thing and come out with another: a whopping infection contracted there. Did you know that you’re also at risk for...
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