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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

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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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2024 State Legislative Champions of Dignity and Care Awards

In recognition and appreciation of the responsibilities and challenges of public service, Dignity Alliance has established annual awards to recognize ...

2024 Legislative Candidates

To inform older adults, persons with disabilities, family members, and caregivers about legislative candidates' positions on issues of interest, Dignity ...

Bringing People Home: the Marsters Lawsuit

Bringing People Home - website by the Center for Public Representation Ongoing Monitoring and Discussion Coordinated by the Center for ...

Older Adult Lobby Day 2024

February 27 More than 500 older adults and advocates participated in the Older Adult Lobby Day in the Great Hall ...

2024-10-08 Spotlight: Letter to Nursing Home Executives from Senator Warren and others

The correspondence below was sent on September 13, 2024. Read the full text with 27 footnotes. Correspondence to:
Lucinda M. Baier, ...

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