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.
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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. ...
- Arbitration Not Compelled—Agreement Signed By Daughter, Not By Resident
- A recent opinion from a federal district court rejects all of a facility’s arguments for compelling enforcement of an arbitration agreement signed by a resident’s family member without the knowled...
- Resident’s Estate Entitled to Names and Contact Information for Other Residents of Assisted Living Facility
- With minimal analysis, a federal district court judge has overruled an assisted living facility’s privacy objections based on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) ...