The Freedom to Make Your Own Choices

I’ll start with a sentiment I hear a lot when I say I work on older people’s rights: “Oh, nursing homes can be awful, but my dad’s in a good one.” I would hope that everyone living in a facility is living in a “good” one. But unfortunately, that just isn’t the case. And what is more, even in the ones people think are “good” ones, with chandeliers and carpeting, there are risks inherent in the segregation from the outside world, risks in the situation of control a facility has when a person wholly depends on it. We cannot overstate the risks. This year, we documented the widespread inappropriate…

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