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Lisa Sanders, a spokesperson for @LeadingAge, an association of health care providers dedicated to older adults, said the country’s aging services industry was not equipped to combat the virus. https://bit.ly/2MuQ8jI pic.twitter.com/gQ0Ox9zmdk
Last March, lawmakers passed the CARES Act, which distributed tens of billions of dollars in federal aid to help nursing homes and other health care providers. That relief money never covered the full cost of care during the pandemic, Sanders said, and the costs continue.
Many nursing homes across the country — including in California, Indiana, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island — have already permanently closed their doors in recent months.https://bit.ly/2MuQ8jI
As nursing homes close, family caregivers — overwhelmingly women — will likely feel the additional strain. Almost 42 million Americans, or 16 percent of all adults, serve as caregivers for relatives 50 and over.https://bit.ly/2MuQ8jI
According to data compiled by @AARP, most of the people doing this unpaid, labor-intensive work are women, and, on average, they are just shy of 50 themselves.
Many have jobs outside the home, or are also primary parents for young children.https://bit.ly/2MuQ8jI
“We don’t tend to think about long-term care until we need it,” Sanders said. “Long-term care has traditionally not gotten the ... recognition it deserves for its vital role in the health care system. I hope that as a result of the pandemic, that changes.”https://bit.ly/2MuQ8jI
BS!!!! Then how are nurses getting paid MORE w/Hazard pay?? Huh??
Because they are not getting paid hazard pay in nursing homes.
I would be very curious to see the financial breakdown of nursing homes. The monthly cost is so high for the resident and I know the workers don't make very much. But I'm not sure how much their mortgage debt, total employee costs (including executives), etc.
Medicaid in Wisconsin never reimbursed nursing homes for the full cost of patients. That cost had to be made up with private pay patients. 2019 saw a record number of nursing homes close in Wisconsin
That money also never reached us home caregivers who refuse to put their elderly family members in a nursing home. Meanwhile we are stuck unable to work in fear of killing our parents and grandparents via catching Covid.
So explain, they were paying the employees instead or themselves paying for for extra care, and bills for the building. Like how it went out
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