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Retirement Community Segregates Residents with Disabilities in Dining Room

by Steve Gurney
Category: Age Discrimination , Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC)

The Virginia Pilot reports that last May, the continuing care retirement community, Harbor’s Edge instituted a policy that prohibited residents in the assisted-living and nursing-care sections from dining in River Terrace or any other dining facilities in the independent wing. Rather, they needed to eat in the dining hall of their own section. Community resident, William Hodges, a former state legislator and senior judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia required a mobility device and lives in assisted living [...]

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State is Piloting “Advanced Standing” for Assisted Living Licensure

Health Commissioner Mary O’Dowd said a state license merely tells the public that a facility meets minimum state standards. Now, in what she said is a first for the nation, New Jersey is partnering[...]

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Nursing Home Quality Not Improving – Investigative Report USAToday

A recent USA Today report reveals that 560 of the nation's nursing homes have not budged for the past three years from a one-star federal government rating — the lowest on a five-star scale. The[...]

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Nursing Homes and Hospitals Prepare for Another Round of Budget Cuts

Nursing-home operators, already hit hard by last year's cuts in federal and state funding, face another revenue loss in Pennsylvania Governors proposed budget for the fiscal year starting July[...]

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Study Suggests High Rate of Drinking in Assisted Living Facilities

The rate of drinking among residents in assisted living facilities is high, according to a new study published in Research on Aging, titled Alcohol Misuse and Abuse Reported by Nurse Aides in Assisted[...]

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InternationalLiving.com launches hunt for Americans or Canadians willing to live as expat retirees in Ecuador for a month – all expenses paid.

InternationalLiving.com is looking for a single person or couple willing to spend a month road-testing an overseas retirement in colonial Cuenca, Ecuador – a destination that earned the top spot in[...]

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NYT Article Explores Male / Female Occupancy in Nursing Homes

Paula Span explores a topic in her weekly New York Times post that touches on something discharge planning and case managers know all too well!  She writes, "Nursing homes are heavily female, like[...]

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Emergency Room Visits Can Bring Infection Back to Nursing Homes

An emergency department visit may triple the risk of respiratory and gastrointestinal infections for nursing home residents, researchers found. The rate of new acute respiratory or GI infections was[...]

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Long-term care “State of the Union” Address

The nursing-home industry is piggy-backing off the president's State of the Union speech to draw attention to the state of long-term and post-acute care in the United States. The American Health[...]

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