Be a Squeaky Wheel at the Nursing Home

“Be a squeaky wheel." That's our advice to our nursing home residents and their family members, states David Wingate of Senior Life Care Planning (“SLCP”). Your loved one is entitled to quality nursing home care. Therefore, you need to know your nursing home rights, and utilize these rights, to demand and compel, nursing homes to provide the care, your loved ones, require. Generally, residents cannot be discharged, from a nursing home, because of behavioral issues. "These evictions are usually improper; because such residents belong in a nursing home" states Terri Mason, a case manager at SLCP. You need someone, a…

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