By Jason Bloome
COVID-19 has had a devasting impact on residents and staff in long term care facilities in California. While no care setting is impervious to the virus, residential assisted living homes have much lower rates of COVID-19 cases and related-deaths than nursing homes.
In California, as of July 7, 2020, there have been ..Read More…
By Karen Smith Rotabi and Carmen Monico
Fact 1: In recent years, families entering the United States without authorization have been separated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in many cases. Adults and parents with children (family units) have been held in over 100 immigration detention facilities across the U.S. Those children declared “unaccompanied” ..Read More…
By Jason Bloome
NASW-CA News Contributor
Nursing homes in California have been hard hit by COVID-19 with more than 2,184 resident deaths due to the virus. Geriatricians and patient advocates have been pressuring the state to protect nursing home staff and residents by increased testing and isolation of infected residents. A lack of compliance, enforcement ..Read More…
By Jason Bloome
The United States healthcare system is deluged by seniors with COVID-19 who require respiratory treatments: which includes the use of respirators, ventilators, inhalation therapy, oxygen, and other treatments. The elderly in skilled nursing homes are a population especially vulnerable to developing serious illness or dying as a result of COVID-19. In 2017, ..Read More…
By Jason Bloome
About 13 million low income Americans rely on long term support and services (LTSS) which range from assistance with meal preparation, medicine management and/or help with activities of daily living (e.g. dressing, bathing, incontinence, etc.).[i] For individuals turning 65 there is a 70% chance that at some point in their life ..Read More…
