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What is the state of nursing home and assisted living facilities within Pennsylvania and what are some ways to make them better?
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.
Pennsylvania Dept. of Aging creates new unit to investigate elder financial abuse
The Pennsylvania Department of Aging’s new financial abuse specialist team hopes to protect the elderly from financial abuse.
State employees aiding troubled Philly elder abuse nonprofit
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.
State presses Philadelphia agency over elder abuse, neglect
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.
Pa.’s looming dementia care crisis, by the numbers
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.
‘Protected them to death’: Elder-care COVID rules under fire
Pandemic restrictions are falling away almost everywhere — except inside many of America’s nursing homes.