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Search results for "long-term care" ...
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Overwhelmed and Broken Down: Caring for the Elderly and Disabled
The Journal Sentinel reports on deaths and injuries occurring in assisted living facilities. The three-part finds that elderly and disabled people are put at risk by "poorly trained or stretched too thin" caregivers. The findings are based on analysis of a database of state inspection reports. Other findings include that about 10,000 of the state residents who need long-term care have been pressed to wait for months or years for assistance from the state. The investigation examines the nursing homes industry in light of the aging baby-boom generation and the increasing number of people needing long-term care nationwide. The investigative team concludes that nursing homes are "crumbling under the financial burdens caused by inadequate Medicaid payments."
Tags: CAR; group homes; disabilities; health care; doctors; nurses
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Foster Fare
A Capital News Service investigation based on 1998 data on foster Maryland care case proves "what advocates had long seen anecdotally, that disabled kids have the toughest time in state foster care." Compared with other children in the system, disabled kids are more likely to end up in group homes or be set on a course of long-term foster care, and less likely to be placed with relatives, the CNS reports.
Tags: emotional disabilities; mental health; retardation; social services; youths; Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System; abuse; neglect; child welfare; behavior problems; CAR
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Nursing Home Scandal
The Oklahoman investigated nursing homes in the area and found a scandal widely affecting the states' elderly population. "Many residents of long term care facilities were not only being neglected, but physically abused. When abuses were discovered, prosecutors usually let the abusers off with deferred or suspended sentences." Reporters also found that "The Health Department payroll included dozens of people who were relatives of state legislators and Health Department administrators." In addition, The Oklahoman found nine ghost employees who "not only collected paychecks while doing little or no work", but also received money from "submitted bogus travel and expense reports."
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Special report: The crisis in long-term care
A Consumer's Digest investigative report explores the difficulty of financing and finding quality long-term care. The myths behind Medicaid financing, unchecked abuses in nursing homes and the lack of state and federal regulations over long-term care insurers are among the issues discussed.
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After the fall -- The challenges of major head injury
Whitt recounts the stories of two survivors of major head injuries, her own father being one of them. While modern medicine has made it possible for victims to survive, society has not yet developed an adequate system to provide for long-term care.
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The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm
Life Magazine finds that the children of many Gulf War veterans are suffering the long-term consequences of Desert Storm. Hundreds of families face official stonewalling regarding their children's birth defects.
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Pretend Paupers
Florida Trend Magazine reports that "Florida's Medicaid program is turning into a middle-class and well-to-do inheritance protection scheme. Who pays? The taxpayers and poor, sick children..... Financed jointly by the states and the federal government, Medicaid was established in 1965 to pay for the medical needs of the indigent poor, including long-term nursing-home care. But today, the program is rapidly gentrifying, as middle-class and well-to-do families learn how to rearrange assets to get around Medicaid's strict means test."
Tags: lawyers loopholes gentrification financial planning estate planning spending
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Nursing Homes and Common Sense
Governing Magazine reports that "For decades, nursing homes have been the primary providers of long-term care. But are states spending billions of dollars on sophisticated care that most of the elderly don't need?... Experts estimate that somewhere between 60 and as many as 75 percent of nursing home residents could be cared for in a more appropriate and less expensive way..."
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Dancing Around the Dumps
Governing Magazine reports that "Almost two decades ago, states agreed to take care of disposing of low-level radioactive waste. But nobody want to take the first step....Although the risk from exposure to low-level radioactive waste is nowhere near that of highly radioactive spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants, long-term exposure is associated with a risk of cancer and other illnesses.."
Tags: policy hazardous waste disposal DNR Department of Natural Resources Superfund
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Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) documents the inadequacies of the state's Medicaid system; despite spending more than any state in the nation, the program leaves the poor and elderly without adequate medical care; elderly often bankrupted by long-term care costs before Medicaid will cover them, Dec. 17 - 24, 1989.
Tags: Lipman Weller