To provide some insight on the state of assistant living and nursing home facilities within Pennsylvania and ways to make them better, Zach Shamberg, president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Health Care Association, Margie Zelenak, executive director of the Pennsylvania Assisted Living Association and Anne Adams, 95-year-old assisted living resident in Lancaster, illustrator and author of the art book, The People I see, joined us on Monday’s The Spark.
The Pennsylvania Department of Aging’s new financial abuse specialist team hopes to protect the elderly from financial abuse.
Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration has taken the extraordinary step of marshaling state employees to handle investigations for a Philadelphia nonprofit that fields allegations of the neglect or abuse of older people.
Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration became so concerned about how three cases of neglect or abuse of older people were handled in Philadelphia that it is ordering improvements at an agency there.
Experts warn Pennsylvania is headed for a profound eldercare crisis as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia rates continue to climb. Statistics illustrate the cause of their concern.
A lack of beds and staff, soaring costs, and action plans gone unheeded have left Pennsylvania, one of the oldest states in the nation, in a perilous position.
By Colin Deppen/Spotlight PA and Juliette Rihl/PublicSource 