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Elders in residence

  • Experts say proper infection control, long a problem in nursing home care, could have largely mitigated the number of deaths.

    It has the highest death rate of any nursing home in the US. Families want to know why

    As numbers climbed at a facility for veterans in New Jersey, the rights of grieving family members fell away
  • “It seems like they had a plan to go in there for two or three years, bleed the nursing homes and then just bail out.”

    Seniors and staff caught in the middle of nursing homes' quest for profit

    The cycle of buying and selling care homes has led to shortcuts, closures, even fraud – and imperiled vulnerable residents’ health
  • Transfer trauma is something elder care advocates see families confront every day.

    Transfer trauma: America's seniors suffer as care system pushes them between sites

    Unequal payment plans drive some corporate nursing home facilities to shed – or in some cases ‘hospital dump’ – residents, distressing delicate elders
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