Nursing homes receive billions of taxpayers’ dollars every year to care for chronically ill frail elders, but until now, there was no guarantee that’s how the money would be spent.
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Nursing Homes Limit Profits in Bid to Improve Care
Posted on 27 October 2021.
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Older Adults Decry Health Providers’ Ageism
Posted on 25 October 2021.
Joanne Whitney, 84, a retired associate clinical professor of pharmacy at the University of California-San Francisco, often feels devalued when interacting with health care providers.
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Pandemic Toll On Elderly Extended Beyond Nursing Homes
Posted on 27 September 2021.
As covid-19 resurges across the country, driven by the highly infectious delta variant, experts are extending our understanding of the pandemic’s toll on older adults, the age group hit hardest by the pandemic.
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Prevent Falls This Fall With A Home Safety Checklist
Posted on 12 September 2021.
More than 75 percent of falls happen in or around the house, but fortunately there are ways to evaluate the home of a loved one and make them safer for everyday living.
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Loneliness Is Rampant: A Simple Call, Or Hug, May Be A Cure
Posted on 11 September 2021.
The stranger’s call came when Dianne Green needed it most. Alone in the home where she’d raised four kids, grieving recently deceased relatives, too fearful of COVID-19 to see her grandkids and great-grandbabies, she had never felt lonelier.
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Minister Harper Confronts Ageism And The Shame It Brings
Posted on 04 September 2021.
Later life is a time of reassessment and reflection. What sense do we make of the lives we have lived? How do we come to terms with illness and death? What do we want to give to others as we grow older?
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