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Download the 2022 Dignity Alliance Massachusetts Annual Report (pdf). See full work group reports (pdf format) below.

Heard this week:

Inadequate nursing home staffing is not just an issue for today’s residents. Each of us may be one accident away from a nursing home. Whether we are 80 years old with a broken hip or 30 years old with a head injury, we shouldn’t have to worry that we’ll end up neglected in a nursing home too understaffed to keep us safe. 

Biden’s nursing home staffing proposal is dangerously inadequate, The Hill, September 22, 2023

“We just want our happily ever after.”

Julia Simko, 33, who hopes to marry Ray Vercruysse, 35, who both live with developmental disabilities, For Disabled Couples, a Plea for Marriage Equality, New York Times (free access), September 15, 2023

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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In the News

DignityMA Study Session: Using Class Actions to Promote System Change

Steven Schwartz, Legal Director, Center for Public Representation, was the featured guest for a DignityMA Study Session on September 22, ...

2023-09-25 Spotlight: For Disabled Couples, a Plea for Marriage

New York Times (free access)
By Tammy LaGorce, September 15, 2023 On Wednesday afternoon, 20 couples gathered in front of a ...

DignityMA Study Session – The Future of Nursing Homes: Navigator Homes of Martha’s Vineyard – A case Study

Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 2:00 p.m. Embracing the core values in the disruptive concept for nursing home design, the "Green ...

DignityMA Study Session with Secy. Edward Augustus

DignityMA Study Session with Secretary Edward Augustus, Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities Wednesday, September 13, 2023 from 1:00 ...

DignityMA Study Session – ReFraming Aging

Presenter: Melissa Donegan, LSW,  Director, Healthy Living Center of Excellence, AgeSpan Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 10:00 a.m. Join ReFraming Aging ...

DignityMA Study Session – PACE Program 101 and More

PACE - Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly Presenter: Candace Kuebel, LCSW, MSW, MBA, Executive Director,
MassPACE Association Wednesday, ...

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