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Last week, @TheProspect released their special issue on #UniversalFamilyCare, which could not be timelier. In the issue, @moetkacik examined the harmful history of the corporatization of #nursinghomes. 1/7 https://prospect.org/familycare/the-corporatization-of-nursing-homes/?vgo_ee=ddWnLoQPgUcYDY%2Bt5OQUTbIXdWHe2pAJix1rDYpEDcA%3D
If you want to know why nursing homes can be so dangerous for seniors and people with disabilities, and why they have been a vector of coronavirus transmission, you need to read this piece in @TheProspect. 2/7 https://prospect.org/familycare/the-corporatization-of-nursing-homes/?vgo_ee=ddWnLoQPgUcYDY%2Bt5OQUTbIXdWHe2pAJix1rDYpEDcA%3D
"In many hard-hit homes, dead friends are being replaced with psychiatric referrals from psych wards and homeless shelters; in more selective ones, dementia sufferers are being ejected into psychiatric hospitals." 3/7 https://prospect.org/familycare/the-corporatization-of-nursing-homes/?vgo_ee=ddWnLoQPgUcYDY%2Bt5OQUTbIXdWHe2pAJix1rDYpEDcA%3D
"In the absence of an accessible long-term care system for all families, older Americans are callously warehoused in these institutions... But for decades before the pandemic, for-profit nursing homes have been robbing seniors of their dignity and their money." 4/7
Seniors and people with disabilities aren't the only ones harmed by predatory practices at nursing-homes. "Nurses were fired for wearing masks, calling out sick, or speaking to the media about how direly they needed PPE and extra help." 5/7 https://prospect.org/familycare/the-corporatization-of-nursing-homes/?vgo_ee=ddWnLoQPgUcYDY%2Bt5OQUTbIXdWHe2pAJix1rDYpEDcA%3D
The pandemic didn't have to be this bad, and there are solutions to the nursing home crisis, including #homecare and universal long-term care. @moetkacik explores more solutions at the end of the piece. 6/7 https://prospect.org/familycare/the-corporatization-of-nursing-homes/?vgo_ee=ddWnLoQPgUcYDY%2Bt5OQUTbIXdWHe2pAJix1rDYpEDcA%3D
This thread only scratched the surface of what @moetkacik uncovered in her reporting - read the full piece at @TheProspect to understand the depth of corruption in the industry & how that harms so many of us and our families. 7/7 https://prospect.org/familycare/the-corporatization-of-nursing-homes/?vgo_ee=ddWnLoQPgUcYDY%2Bt5OQUTbIXdWHe2pAJix1rDYpEDcA%3D
