The National Citizens’ Coalition for Nursing Home Reform (NCCNHR) has changed its name, reorganized, and expanded its national advocacy priorities. Read the full story

Members of the CHCA Policy Action Group (PAG)

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

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

(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

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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