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CBS News: Assisted Living, Erratic Regulation

CBS News aired a report last night (Nov. 13th) on the abuse and neglect that occurs in assisted living homes.

The short report, by Armen Keteyian, touched on a couple of the issues that have been covered here and on other blogs repeatedly.  The main focus of the report was the dangerous combination of problems within the industry and little to no oversight.

The report and video can be found on the CBS website here.

Now the reason for this post.  The majority of the comments on the CBS website under the article have been from within the industry and they are taking this opportunity to deny, spin and shift blame.  Reports like this on national news shows are too important to allow to be defused like this.

I'm asking, and hoping for, readers here to leave a couple of comments under the article on the CBS website letting the public know that there is indeed a problem, there is indeed too much abuse and neglect and that something needs to be done.

I left my comment under the name keith1740.

National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month 2006

November is National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month.

Awareness really may be the key. If people really, truly became aware of the what the disease is all about - the effect on people with the disease, on families, on caregivers, the enormous costs, the lack of answers or a cure, the ever increasing number of people diagnosed - then, if there is any humanity left in this world, the rest will take care of itself.

Read, write, tell, listen, share, learn.