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Heard recently (Visit Quotes page for more)The toilet was full of feces, urine, and blood. Sheila Lambert judged that it had been broken for days.

Lambert dreaded visiting her father at Fall River Healthcare. She came by the nursing home three or four times a week, and would often arrive in the early afternoon to find him undressed, unwashed, and soiled, she says.

“You call, call, call. Nobody comes,” she remembers her father, Edward Pereira, telling her. . .

“I won’t get over it, knowing my father had to spend the last few months of his life there.”

Sheila Lambert, whose father, Edward Pereira, was a resident at Fall River Nursing Home, ‘Worst of the worst’: Fall River nursing home repeatedly cited (The New Bedford Light, November 24, 2025)

“When you reach 100, a lot of things don’t work too well, but sometimes I feel like I’m 15 again.”

Dick Van Dyke, How to Live to 100, According to Dick Van Dyke (New York Times (free access), November 29, 2025 (updated))

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• MA at a Crossroads: DignityMA’s Vision for Long-Term Care
• Resource Websites – curated list of allies and experts
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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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