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Hoping to Crack Alzheimer's, Together as a Family Joshua Lott for The New York Times AWAY FROM HOME Natalia Agudelo, who traveled to Phoenix from Colombia, belongs to a family linked to an ...

Predicting a Fall’s Aftermath By PAULA SPAN For an elderly person, a bad fall can mark the difference between walking and wheelchair, between living in one’s own home and moving to a ...

Consumer Directed: Alternative Delivery of Medicaid Home Care By: Daniel G. Fish, for the New York Law Journal November 15, 2011 Daniel G. Fish Many seniors have extracted a promise from their ...

A Nursing Home Shrinks Until It Feels Like a Home Joshua Bright for The New York Times By LAURIE TARKAN Published: October 31, 2011 Toni Davis spent much of her childhood roaming the corridors of a ...

Predicting a Fall’s Aftermath By PAULA SPAN For an elderly person, a bad fall can mark the difference between walking and wheelchair, between living in one’s own home and moving to a ...

Schumer: NY undercounts abuse of elderly Posted at: 06/21/2012 10:24 AM | Updated at: 06/21/2012 10:36 AM By: AP ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Sen. Charles Schumer says just one in 24 cases of elder abuse in ...

CBS reports: Families turn to nursing homes to give the elderly the care and attention they need, but a congressional report out Monday says 1,600 U.S. nursing homes - nearly one-third - have been ...

City to Pay $70 Million in Medicaid Suit By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS Published: October 31, 2011 New York City will pay the federal government $70 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the city of ...

CBS reports: Families turn to nursing homes to give the elderly the care and attention they need, but a congressional report out Monday says 1,600 U.S. nursing homes - nearly one-third - have been ...

By KATHLEEN SHARP Published: September 26, 2011 Santa Barbara, Calif. LAST week, the Obama administration announced a plan to cut $320 billion over 10 years from the projected growth of Medicare and ...

Consumer Directed: Alternative Delivery of Medicaid Home Care By: Daniel G. Fish, for the New York Law Journal November 15, 2011 Daniel G. Fish Many seniors have extracted a promise from their ...

City to Pay $70 Million in Medicaid Suit By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS Published: October 31, 2011 New York City will pay the federal government $70 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the city of ...

Medicare tests monthly incentives for innovative primary care Participating practices will receive an average of about $20 per patient per month to coordinate quality care for Medicare and private ...

Predicting a Fall’s Aftermath By PAULA SPAN For an elderly person, a bad fall can mark the difference between walking and wheelchair, between living in one’s own home and moving to a ...

A nursing home aide in New York was sentenced to seven years for sexually abusing a 61-year-old patient at Amsterdam Nursing Home in Morningside Heights. The woman was partially paralyzed, unable to ...

Consumer Directed: Alternative Delivery of Medicaid Home Care By: Daniel G. Fish, for the New York Law Journal November 15, 2011 Daniel G. Fish Many seniors have extracted a promise from their ...