Dec 4 2010
Caring for aging patients -- whether at home or in nursing facilities -- poses unique challenges.
NPR: Care At Home: A New Civil Right
Many people believe that nursing home residents are too sick to live at home. Yet there are many people who have the same disabilities found in nursing homes, who are able to live in their own homes with assistance from family or aides (Shapiro, 12/2).
Star Tribune: Where Will Seniors Live?
With Minnesota's elderly population expected to double in the next two decades, gerontologists and urban planners agree that the state needs to expand its stock of senior housing (Wolfe, Peterson, and Smetanka, 12/1).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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