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Everyone in a Nursing Home Deserves a Single Room

Margaret Morganroth Gullette The Boston Globe
The government should require that owners give residents private space — or it should take over the facilities and replace them with small homes.

Capitalism and the Caring Economy

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
The entire caregiving sector needs to be separated from the commercial economy. Otherwise, we pay exorbitant costs for inadequate services and abuse workers and patients alike.

Why Nursing Home Aides Exposed to COVID-19 Aren’t Taking Sick Leave

Shefali Milczarek-Desai and Tara Sklar The Conversation
nursing aide helping older man Our research, drawing on interviews with nursing aides and emerging studies of other essential workers during COVID-19, shows how employee policies, particularly for low-paid aides, have sharply raised the risks...
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