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• KFF Health News: Despite Past Storms’ Lessons, Long-Term Care Residents Again Left Powerless

  July 18, 2024: HOUSTON — As Tina Kitzmiller sat inside her sweltering apartment, windows and doors open in the hope of catching even the slightest breeze, she was frustrated and worried for her dog and her neighbors. It had been days since Read More >

• KFF Health News: States Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Nursing Homes. Residents Suffer When Rules Are Ignored or Waived.

  July 18, 2024: For hours, John Pernorio repeatedly mashed the call button at his bedside in the Heritage Hills nursing home in Rhode Island. A retired truck driver, he had injured his spine in a fall on the job decades earlier and could no longe Read More >

• KHN: ‘They Treat Me Like I’m Old and Stupid’: Seniors Decry Health Providers’ Age Bias

  October 20, 2021: Joanne Whitney, 84, a retired associate clinical professor of pharmacy at the University of California-San Francisco, often feels devalued when interacting with health care providers. There was the time se Read More >

• Trump Committed to Gutting Social Security

  May 04, 2020: For Immediate Release Threatens to Veto Any Coronavirus Relief Unless Congress Cuts Social Security’s Dedicated Funding The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Ameri Read More >

• President Trump “Protecting” Seniors, Really?

  April 30, 2020: For Immediate Release The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding President Trump’s anticipated remarks later today about “taking care of seniors Read More >