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Editorial Roundup: Nebraska
Lincoln Journal Star. May 23, 2024. Editorial: DOJ findings are a people issue, not a political one Nebraska is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by unnecessarily segregating people with serious mental illnesses in assisted living facilities and day...
Adult day services provide stimulation for older Americans, and respite for full-time caregivers
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Sally White helps her husband of 46 years get dressed, fed and on the bus for the short ride from their home to Third Age Adult Day Center four mornings a week. Preparing 74-year-old Rodger White to leave the house for the day can be a chore since he’s...
Older Americans often don't prepare for long-term care, from costs to location to emotional toll
MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — Seven tough weeks passed with her husband in the hospital before Nancy Gag Braun found long-term care for him. From 2019 up until that point in 2022, Braun had cared for Steven at their Mankato home. A traumatic brain injury in February 2019, followed by his...
Despite surging demand for long-term care, providers struggle to find workers
The hardest part of Culix Wibonele’s first job in long-term care was not getting injured. Originally from Kenya, Wibonele worked as a certified nursing assistant in Atlanta in 2014. She went to the homes of mostly older clients, helping them with everything from bathing to cooking....
Dying ex-doctor leaves Virginia prison 2 years after pardon for killing his dad
MARION, Va. (AP) — A former North Carolina doctor who was pardoned for killing his father left a Virginia prison for a hospital on Thursday, more than a decade after a doctor began advocating for his release because of a rare brain condition. Vince Gilmer is in the terminal stages...
Black Americans are underrepresented in residential care communities, AP/CNHI News analysis finds
Norma Upshaw, 82, was living alone south of Nashville, when her doctor said she needed to start in-home dialysis. Her closest family lived 40 miles away, and they’d already scrambled once when the independent senior living facility she had called home — a community of largely...
Black Americans are underrepresented in residential care communities, AP/CNHI News analysis finds
Norma Upshaw was living alone south of Nashville when her doctor said she needed to start in-home dialysis. Her closest family lived 40 miles away, and they’d already scrambled once when the independent senior living facility the 82-year-old had called home — a community of...
Inmate wins medical release order hours after being rushed to hospital, put on life support
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — An ailing prison inmate serving a life sentence in Pennsylvania for killing a man during a 1975 robbery won a medical release order from a judge Monday, although the decision came hours after he was put on life support. Ezra Bozeman, 68, won the release from...
Editorial Roundup: Nebraska
North Platte Telegraph. April 27, 2024. Editorial: Unicam was better in 2024 … but about tax relief … Before discussing what wasn’t done about Nebraska’s property tax crisis, let’s talk about the one thing the 2024 Legislature absolutely had to do and did. ...
Editorial Roundup: Nebraska
Lincoln Journal Star. April 20, 2024. Editorial: DHHS audit reveals agency, new director have work to do The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services likely mishandled tens of millions of state and federal dollars last year, handing out millions in taxpayer...
