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Watch Out For This Nursing Home Scam!

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One fifth of Medicare nursing home patients with advanced Alzheimer’s or dementia were sent to hospitals for questionable reasons in their final months, often enduring tube feeding and intensive care.

Researchers suspect that it’s not a coincidence, since Medicare pays a nursing home about three times the normal daily rate when it takes patients back after brief hospitalizations. A group of researchers from Brown University, Harvard University and Dartmouth Medical School studied about 475,000 nursing home patients who had been transferred to hospitals. Among them, 19 percent were moved for questionable reasons.
Researchers suspect that it’s not a coincidence, s…

Dealing with the Loneliness of Aging

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My dad, who had congestive heart failure, lived on the second floor of a garden apartment building that had no elevator. As the disease made him weaker, he could no long walk down the stairs. And for the last year of his life, he was trapped in his own apartment. An “outing” was a slow walk, and eventually, a wheelchair ride […]

The Future of Adult Day Care

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In a move that shocked many in the elder care community, California has ended funding for its adult day care program. The question now is what will happen to the nearly 5,000 others that operate throughout the country. California’s $169 million program serves about 35,000 low-income seniors and other adults with disabilities.  The program will end in January when […]

St. Mary’s Health System Is On The Path to Mastery

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Congratulations to St. Mary’s d’Youville Pavilion in Lewistown, Maine, for completing the first major Milestone in The Path to Mastery™: The Art of Creating a Caring Community. This powerful new tool developed by The Eden Alternative® guides organizations through the process of transforming their culture by applying person-directed care practices. Through this approach, decisions and actions […]

Boom, Like That

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I eagerly await Parts 2 and 3 of the Abolishing the Old Age Asylum series from Bill Thomas. There’s a laundry list of reasons why the culture change movement has engaged only about 10% of all nursing homes in a … Continue reading →

Institutional Care: Bad For All Ages

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NPR’s Joseph Shapiro reports: There’s one age group that’s going into nursing homes at a higher rate. And it’s not the elderly. Young people ages 31 to 64 now make up 14 percent of the nursing home population, an analysis of federal data from the Department of Health and Human Services by NPR’s Investigative Unit […]

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