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Heard this week (Visit Quotes page for more)
“I can’t wait to get out of here.”
Leonard Wright, 52 year old man who has been a resident at Highview of Northampton for two and a half years, ‘A dog pound would be better.’ Inside one of the most-fined nursing homes in Mass., *Mass Live, July 14, 2024
“Need assistance. Not enough staff. Laying in urine all day,” reads a complaint filed in late 2021 with the city health department. “Tired of being overlooked, hasn’t had a decent bath since she’s been there,” another complaint, from December 2023, reads.
“When she calls for help they do not come so she calls the local health department,” reads an adult protective services intake form the city health department filed.
Inside understaffing problem at Mass. nursing homes, *Mass Live, July 14, 2024
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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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- 1:00 pm, July 16, 2024 – What's Wrong with Long-Term Care Facilities? And What Can You and I (and Residents) Do About It?
- 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm, July 17, 2024 – Annual ADA Day Celebration on Boston City Hall Plaza
- 1:30 pm, September 17, 2024 – Advocacy for MA DDS Self-Directed Services as envisioned by the 2014 Real Lives Law
- 1:30 pm, November 19, 2024 – Advocacy for MA DDS Self-Directed Services as envisioned by the 2014 Real Lives Law
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