“Opinion: Why nursing homes are suffering from old age problems,” by Betsy Rust, MarketWatch

“Remember nursing homes? Someday, perhaps as soon as the next decade, that’s how Americans may start to think about them — in the past tense, as institutional relics. The grim economic reality is that many nursing homes are facing extinction. In fact, I predict that the confluence of a number of trends — demographics, competition from nursing home alternatives, federal and state health-care policy and even technology — will mean as many as 20% of nursing home beds will be eliminated in the next five years.”

LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):
So true, but why and what should be done about it? That’s why I sent this note to the author:

Opinion: Why nursing homes are suffering from old age problems

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