Sue Hoger returns to Be the Change Radio to talk about affordable accessible housing and housing fair rights.
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Here’s a link to another story in NPR’s series on nursing facilities vs. community-based services and supports, which aired last evening on All Things Considered. Like yesterday morning’s story about Michelle Fridley from CDR, it once again focuses on younger people, including children, living in nursing facilities
Youth in Nursing Homes Seek Alternative Care
–Sue Hoger
NPR has been running an occasional series called “Home or Nursing Home? America’s Empty Promise to Give the Elderly and Disabled a Choice”
Read or listen to all the articles here:
For states, it’s the big unanswered question about expanding opportunities for elderly and disabled people to get their long-term care at home: How much is all this going to cost?
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One of the students of my respite internship wrote a poem about her experience. She performed it at a slam poetry contest at SUNY New Paltz and WON!!! She is now on the slam poetry team and will compete nationally with the poem.
Here is a link so you can hear the poem.
–Suzanne de Beaumont
