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...women have been stable family and community leaders, whose determination has carried them through slavery, blatant and latent racism and the disintegration of the black nuclear family, do they not deserve applause and recognizance of their strength? The only explanation for the American people's and the media's neglect is that determination, resilience and steadfastness are traits that humble and humiliate those who do not possess them. The Million Woman March is an event that Americans--black, white, Chinese, Christian, Jewish--can learn from and should credit for helping to provide the hope of a better America...
Bessie, who now lives with her daughter, was lucky to get out alive. A TIME investigation has found that senior citizens in nursing homes are at far greater risk of death from neglect than their loved ones imagine. Owing to the work of lawyers, investigators and politicians who have begun examining the causes of thousands of nursing-home deaths across the U.S., the grim details are emerging of an extensive, blood-chilling and for-profit pattern of neglect. In Chicago last week a 73-count indictment was returned against a hospice operator charged with bilking Medicare and others...
Palo Alto attorney Von Packard has studied the death certificates of all Californians who died in nursing homes from 1986 through 1993. More than 7% of them succumbed, at least in part, to utter neglect--lack of food or water, untreated bedsores or other generally preventable ailments. If the rest of America's 1.6 million nursing-home residents are dying of questionable causes at the same rate as in California, it means that every year about 35,000 Americans are dying prematurely, or in unnecessary pain, or both. The investigations bear out something many Americans have suspected all along...
Packard and his investigators, referred to as "hearse chasers" by some in the nursing-home trade, have begun contacting relatives of deceased patients whose California death certificates cite malnutrition, dehydration and other signs of neglect. They're often shocked to learn what killed their loved ones. "They don't know their parents died of malnutrition," says Dina Rasor, an investigator working for Packard, "until we tell them." Even more telling, the causes of death on California death certificates are often listed by doctors affiliated with the nursing home involved, suggesting that Packard's list may well understate the number...
...much rather make the occasional B than be the person who can't ever do anything spontaneously fun, you know, like just go to a movie on a Tuesday night or something, because they can't neglect their workload," Lot says...