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DignityMA endorsed several important bills that did not pass. There is still time – contact your legislator via our Take Action page!
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Why do nursing home corporations provide suboptimal and neglectful care while earning robust profits? Because they can. Although the “law” is merely the codification of our morals, values, and ethics, it is of little consequence when it is not respected and enforced.
Dave Kingsley, A Discussion of Morals and Values in Institutional Care for the Elderly: How we Justify the Unjustifiable: Part I, Center for Health Information and Policy, July 30, 2024
Care is not just a need, it’s an untapped economic motor – every carer is a worker, and care allows people to make choices — making care functional means unsticking the economy. It means unsticking society. It means freedom.
Ai-jen Poo, president, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Kamala Harris’s big policy proposal is care, The.Ink, October 10, 2024
Mission
Dignity Alliance Massachusetts is dedicated to transformative change to ensure the dignity of older adults, people with disabilities, and their caregivers. We are committed to advancing new ways of providing long-term services, support, living options, and care, while respecting choice and self-determination. Through education, legislation, regulatory reform, and legal strategies, this mission will become reality throughout the Commonwealth.
As a grass-roots coalition of aging and disability service and advocacy organizations and supporters, Dignity Alliance Massachusetts works to secure fundamental changes.
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Upcoming Events
- 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm, October 16, 2024 – October 17, 2024 – 2024 AARP Livable Communities Workshop: Designing for People of All Ages
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm, October 16, 2024 – Webinar on Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation of Dementia Programs for Delivery in Communities
- 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm, October 17, 2024 – Implementing the APS Rule: New webinar series and continuing TA and training
- 10:00 am, October 18, 2024 – Annual White Cane Awareness Day celebration
- 4:00 pm – 11:00 pm, October 19, 2024 – 25th Anniversary Deaf Survivors Center Gala
- 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm, October 22, 2024 – REV UP MA 2024 Disability Voting Webinar
- 10:00 am – 11:00 am, October 24, 2024 – All about Adult Family Care
- 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm, October 29, 2024 – Let's Talk about Dementia and Culture
- 2:00 pm, November 6, 2024 – Longevity Book Club with Debra Whitman
- 1:30 pm, November 19, 2024 – Advocacy for MA DDS Self-Directed Services as envisioned by the 2014 Real Lives Law
- 3:00 pm, December 11, 2024 – A Conversation with Natalie Foster
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In the News
2024 State Legislative Champions of Dignity and Care Awards
2024 Legislative Candidates
Bringing People Home: the Marsters Lawsuit
Older Adult Lobby Day 2024
2024-10-08 Spotlight: Letter to Nursing Home Executives from Senator Warren and others
Lucinda M. Baier, ...
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