The National Citizens’ Coalition for Nursing Home Reform (NCCNHR) has changed its name, reorganized, and expanded its national advocacy priorities. Read the full story
Posted on 24 June 2010.
The National Citizens’ Coalition for Nursing Home Reform (NCCNHR) has changed its name, reorganized, and expanded its national advocacy priorities. Read the full story
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Posted on 03 March 2010.
Members of the Cooperative Home Care Associates‘ Policy Action Group (PAG) met with New York state legislators in Albany on February 23 and 24 to discuss the unfair treatment of home health aides. Read the full story
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Posted on 11 February 2010.
At a time when many nonprofit organizations are struggling to survive, the New Mexico Direct Caregivers Coalition (NMDCC) is establishing itself as a strong advocate. Read the full story
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Posted on 22 September 2009.

(L-R) Ancil Alexander from Cooperative Home Care Associates; Joe Angelelli, Meghan Shineman, and Steven L. Dawson from PHI; and John Hale from the Iowa Caregivers Association
Dozens of eldercare workforce advocates and constituents went to Capitol Hill on September 15 to let Congress know that a strong eldercare workforce is essential to real health reform.
The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA), co-chaired by Steven L. Dawson, PHI president, and Nancy Lundebjerg, vice president and chief operating officer of the American Geriatrics Society, organized the National Advocacy Day. EWA, a broad-based coalition of 29 national organizations representing all aspects of the health care delivery system, supports practical solutions to improve health care quality for older adults by strengthening the eldercare workforce. Read the full story
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Posted on 04 December 2008.

Dr. William Thomas
Bill Thomas calls himself “a nursing home abolitionist.”
“I want them to go away,” he says. “Our greatest adversary is the institutional mindset. That must go.”
Talk of culture change doesn’t matter as long as people retain an attitude of elders as “the helpless inmates of total institutions,” he says.
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Posted on 23 November 2008.

As the challenge of caring for America’s aging population intensifies, the issue is beginning to get the increased newspaper coverage it deserves. Case in point: an in-depth series that has been offered up from a small daily paper out of Utah (hat tip to The New Old Age).
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