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SEPTEMBER 16: LONG TERM CARE: How's Grandma Really Doing?
America's propensity for placing their aging and infirm parents and spouses in long-term care facilities (assisted living, nursing homes, etc.), likely their last stop before the end has led to the creation of excellent facilities - and to little more than warehouses where the aging are dumped. When things go wrong - and too often they do, perhaps unnecessarily hastening the end for an otherwise healthy senior, or making life pretty uncomfortable for resident and patients - who's responsible? Our first response is: the nursing home or assisted living facility. Often true. But what is our role as family members selecting the proper facility venue for mom or dad or grandma and grandpa? Need they be placed at all? Could they be living independently longer?
TTT's ANDY DRISCOLL and LYNNELL MICKELSEN explore the current state of long-term care, the good, the bad and the ugly and discuss the roles and responsibilities of the systems, the private and public sector providers and family caregivers to provide the appropriate setting(s) for our elders and family members with disabilities - mental and physical.
GUESTS:
• US REP. KEITH ELLISON, D-MN 5th District
• STACY BECKER - Policy Consultant, Key Investigator on Citizens League's Long-Term Care Finances study; former City of St. Paul Budget Director and Public Works Director.
• LaRHAE KNATTERUD - Director, Aging Transformation, Mn Department of Human Services
• LEE GRACZYK - Executive Director, Mature Voices; former Acting Executive, MN Senior Federation
EXTRA:
• DR. BARBARA BLAYLOCK - Denver Primary Care physician traveling with Mad As Hell Doctors bussing their way from Portland, OR, toward Washington, DC, advocating for a single-payer healthcare system.
• DR. ELIZABETH FROST - Minneapolis physician; local leader in PNHP (Physicians for a National Healthcare System)
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