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Assisted Living
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NSCLC supports alternatives to nursing facilities, so that elderly individuals whenever possible can receive needed long-term care services at home, or in a homelike environment. "Assisted living" is an attractive and appealing term. But the reality of assisted living has not yet lived up to the images evoked by the term. Many questions pertaining to assisted living remain unanswered. The answers to even the most fundamental questions—such as "What exactly is assisted living?"—vary from state to state and, in many instances, from facility to facility. NSCLC believes that consumers deserve answers to these questions, and also deserve quality of care standards that assure that residents' needs will be met. On federal and state levels, NSCLC is working to improve the assisted living model so that it fulfills its promise—provision of needed long-term care services in a homelike environment.
- California Assisted Living Facilities Cannot Evict for Resident’s Transition to SSI Benefits
- The California Department of Social Services recently confirmed that an assisted living resident cannot be evicted for non-payment when he or she is approved for SSI by the Social Security Administrat...
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Medicaid Payment for Assisted Living: Current State Practices, and Recommendations for Improvement
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- This issue brief examines many of the most important issues in Medicaid payment for assisted living, and makes recommendations for policy changes at the federal and state levels. Among other things, ...
- Questions to Consider When Evaluating Continuing Care Contracts
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- Assisted Living Concepts Ordered to Disclose Information in Evictions Investigation
- Investigating the systematic eviction of Medicaid-eligible assisted living residents, the New Jersey Public Advocate has obtained a court order compelling Assisted Living Concepts, Inc. (ALC), to prod...
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'Negotiated Risk' Unmasked
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- A new law review article provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of “negotiated risk” in assisted living. The article, written by NSCLC attorney Eric Carlson, appears in the current issue...
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Critical Issues in Assisted Living: Who's In, Who's Out, and Who's Providing the Care
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- This comprehensive report examines the assisted living laws of all 50 states in reference to three important questions. Who can be admitted? Who can be evicted? And how good is staffing and staff trai...
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Policy Principles for Assisted Living
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- Regulatory and consumer groups compiled policy principles for healthy development of assisted living....
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Hearing Officer Denies Assisted Living Eviction
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- An assisted living facility argued that it could not meet a resident’s needs, but the hearing officer disagreed....
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In the Sheep's Clothing of Resident Rights: Behind the Rhetoric of 'Negotiated Risk' in Assisted Living
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- When signing a "negotiated risk" agreement, is an assisted living resident refusing assistance? Or waiving the facility's liability for substandard care?...
- ‘Negotiated Risk’ Report on Assisted Living Agreements Leaves Unanswered Questions
- A new federally-commissioned report on “negotiated risk” perhaps raises more questions than it answers. ...
