Elder Care
Jobs Aplenty, but a Shortage of Care Keeps Many Women From Benefiting
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. A dearth of child care and elder care choices is causing many women to reorganize their working lives and prompting some to forgo jobs altogether, hurting the economy at a moment when companies are desperate to hire, […]
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Families of Veterans Who Died of Covid Win $53 Million Legal Settlement
It was among the country’s deadliest coronavirus outbreaks: One in every three residents of a New Jersey nursing home for frail military veterans died as the virus raced unchecked through the state-run facility. The 101 residents who died in the first eight months of the pandemic included both of Regina Costantino Discenza’s parents, who had […]
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How Nursing Homes’ Worst Offenses Are Hidden From the Public
The public never found out that inspectors cited another New Jersey nursing home, Rehab at River’s Edge, for failing to protect a fragile resident who fell seven separate times, at one point fracturing her foot. And the public never found out that a resident at the Golden Living Center nursing home in Morgantown, W.Va., crashed […]
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