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U.S. Senior Care is in Trouble
Most of us are likely to need assisted living and residential care at some point in our lives. Will it be there?
Healthcare industry insiders, from long-time pharmacists and medical professionals to hospital administrators, have been sounding the alarm about the state of senior care in America recently.
And with good reason.
As in so many other industries and organizations, Covid19 revealed underlying problems in the U.S. healthcare system and accelerated a reckoning already long overdue. The focus on Covid19’s threat to seniors in long-term medical care facilities and nursing homes threw other problems into sharper focus.
“Our Seniors are still in Danger…and It’s Not Covid,” warned pharmacist Linda Witzal for Medium in January. “The system that we have empowered to take care of our most vulnerable populations needs a total overhaul.”
What industry insiders call “bad operators” are eroding the already fragile ecosystem of senior care in America. Medicare fraud is rampant and getting worse all the time. The owners of shady operations are obscured behind a shell game of parent corporations and digital smokescreens, making it almost impossible for average families shopping for quality senior care to discover questionable ownership, conflicts of interest, and even past evidence of fraud and…