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.
Pa. state lawmakers approved a one-time bonus to this year’s rebates but repeatedly failed to address a deeper problem: the program’s steady decline.
The Pennsylvania Department of Aging’s new financial abuse specialist team hopes to protect the elderly from financial abuse.
The secretary of Gov. Tom Wolf’s Department of Aging refused Tuesday to tell lawmakers whether three older adults lived or died after the way a Philadelphia agency handled their cases of abuse or neglect alarmed department employees.
