Tag: long-term care facility
![A doctor giving a older woman medicine](https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/iStock-508633129.png)
An advocate for improving care and federal oversight in assisted living facilities succinctly described the experience of searching for a safe place for a loved one. “The assisted living sector operates under a caveat emptor – let the buyer beware – principle,” Richard Mollot, executive director of the Long Term Care Community Coalition, told t…
![Ambulance waiting at Montreal Nursing Home during the covid-19 epidemic](https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/iStock-1251875060-1536x1158.jpg)
COVID has moved from a central place in our lives to a risk that, while still important to heed, has moved out of the foreground. One thing we will not forget, however, is COVID’s toll on nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, where the virus has killed more than 200,000 older Americans and staff. The tragedy…