Considering the tragedy of nursing homes during the pandemic, it is wise to advocate for home care and not institutionalization.

It is easy to find Americans in instiutionalized care without a family advocate or the knowledge of an ombudsman to call to be rescued. This is not unique to California. There are programs in other states already engaged that maintain the elderly and disabled at home for less cost than if they were in a nursing home.

Rehabilitation facilities should not turn into permanent housing.

February 6, 2022
By Jesse Bedayn

Bradley Fisher, a 62-year-old retired mechanic, (click here) lived in a Bay Area nursing home for 14 years.

Entering at age 39, Fisher had been partially paralyzed when bone spurs severed tendons in his spine. After a few years of rehabilitation, Fisher said, he could have lived at home with proper care.

“You don’t need to be here,” Fisher remembers a certified nursing assistant telling him around 2005, seven years in, as he sat in his wheelchair in the facility’s cafeteria. “You got all your faculties.”

“Yeah,” Fisher replied, “but I don’t know how to get out.”...