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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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• The MA Senate released a report in response to COVID-19. Read more, including the DignityMA response, on the Policies page.
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