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...will probably be hearing from assisted-living representatives who argue that any increase in oversight will convert these facilities into sterile, uncaring medical institutions. But good care and a pleasant ambiance are not mutually exclusive, as the best nursing homes and assisted-living facilities demonstrate daily. The real danger to assisted-living establishments is not from regulation but from the predictable disasters that occur when vulnerable residents are left in the care of inadequately trained employees. ERIC CARLSON National Senior Citizens Law Center Los Angeles...
...focuses on choice, autonomy and independence. As you noted, most assisted-living customers are satisfied. The profession is striving for ways to ensure consistent quality and avoid the types of negative occurrences you described without jeopardizing those qualities that make it so popular with many seniors. Simply handing oversight to Washington bureaucrats will only produce another ineffective punitive regulatory system that focuses on process and paperwork rather than the needs of consumers. I would encourage your readers to request a copy of our free assisted-living consumer guide by calling 1-800-628-8140 between...
...broke away from health care to tell his audience that "the issue I am wrestling with is stem cells." Dr. Stan Pelofsky, president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, says he told Bush that "the genie was out of the bottle" and that federally funded research with oversight would accomplish the best of both worlds. "You would perhaps get spectacular benefits down the road," he said, "and you would also have governmental oversight." But again Bush gave no indication of which way he was leaning...
...limits of law. What good is a partial ban on cloning if it cannot be enforced? Once embryos are produced for research and stockpiled in labs, lawmakers warned, it's hard to control how they are used. Even under Greenwood, which would subject private labs to some government oversight, there would be no knowing for certain whether scientists were violating the law against actually implanting a cloned embryo in a surrogate mother. And if someone found out? "No government agency is going to compel a woman to abort the clone," argued University of Chicago medical ethicist Leon Kass at hearings...
...widespread allegations of substandard care, neglect and even preventable death. Year after year, Washington politicians take aim at problems in nursing homes, often proposing scores of new guidelines for an industry that is already heavily regulated. Yet Congress has thus far largely ignored assisted living, which receives no federal oversight whatsoever...