California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR) is releasing the attached report on the crisis in care at California’s 7,500 Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly (RCFEs).
A lawsuit filed Tuesday, October 22, 2013, in Alameda Superior Court against the California Department of Public Health (DPH) on behalf of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR) and several nursing home residents seeks to find unconstitutional a California law that permits nursing homes residents to be found incompetent and administered mind-altering drugs, placed in physical restraints, have life sustaining treatment ended and denied due process if they seem not to have a “surrogate” or anyone to assist them in opposing such treatment decisions.
SB 272 protects senior veterans from misleading advertising that uses emblems, insignias, symbols or anything that can be reasonably interpreted or construed as implying any federal military, state military, military veteran, or military or veteran services organization connection, approval, or without their express approval.
AB 140 gives a new definition for California’s undue influence statute, which has not been changed since its enactment way back in 1872.
My wife is in a nursing home and we have submitted an application for Long Term Care Medical. I have been told by Medi-Cal that I am considered the community spouse and that California law allows me to retain a minimum monthly maintenance needs allowance (MMMNA) of $2,898.
CANHR will be co-hosting its eighth dementia care symposium on November 12, 2013. This time, CANHR is bringing its comfort-focused care road show to the Modesto area for a FREE half-day event featuring presentations from dementia care experts and a panel discussion of hypothetical tough cases.
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CANHR has just issued a new white paper on the state of assisted living oversight in California.