nursing homes

Older people with limited mobility and chronic health conditions requiring the use of electrically powered medical devices were especially vulnerable. Experts are warning such risks to society’s oldest are growing as disasters increase amid climate change.

Residents from nine facilities still shuttered are staying in nearby skilled nursing centers, where staff are working to make them feel comfortable and monitor for "transfer trauma."

Private Medicare Advantage health plans are increasingly ending coverage for skilled nursing or rehab services before medical providers think patients are healthy enough to go home, doctors and patient advocates say.

Some required rescues, while others hunkered down while depending on generator power as crews sort through the damage.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says friends and family members have had to declare bankruptcy, had wages garnished and their homes repossessed after signing unenforceable “admission agreements.”

Elopements, while relatively rare, can be extremely dangerous, especially for people living with dementia. However, every instance raises concern about accountability, awareness, training and lack of "person-centered care."

Debt lawsuits — a byproduct of America's medical debt crisis — can ensnare not only patients but also those who help sick and older people be admitted to nursing homes, a KHN-NPR investigation finds.

The Biden administration is considering whether Medicaid, which pays the bills for 62% of nursing home residents, should require that most of that funding be used to provide care, rather than for maintenance, capital improvements, or profits.

The nursing home industry lobbied for the measure, which drew opposition from the senior advocacy group AARP Florida and other critics who contended it would reduce care for residents.

The bill marks a victory for family advocates who say separation during the pandemic took a harsh toll on their loved ones in hospitals and long-term care facilities.