Comprehensive Geriatric Care

03/25/2025

Quote of the day

04/03/2024

She was still 99 (and 364 days) when this photo was taken yesterday. I brought her a cute 3D card with lots of breeds of dogs because she would really like to have dog. Don't forget your old people when they get older, and older. Show up. Celebrate them.

03/21/2024

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-new-york-guardianship-system-can-be-fixed

From public funding for guardians to more scrutiny of nonprofit providers, experts say policymakers could take several actions to bolster the state’s foundering system for caring for its most vulnerable.

03/13/2024

Guardianship is to be avoided in NYS whether rich or poor

Unchanged diapers. Fees collected for care never given. New York Guardianship Services is often tasked with caring for the "unbefriended," but records show more than a dozen cases where it failed to meet the needs of the most vulnerable.

03/07/2024

Read about guardianship in NYS

Judith Zbiegniewicz lived in squalor, yet every month, her legally appointed guardian was paid $450 from her bank account. She is one of the thousands of vulnerable New Yorkers left stranded by a system meant to protect them.

09/21/2023

ArchCare MLTC has never done a good thing for any of the dual-eligible "covered lives." ArchCare MLTC is battle after battle after battle for home health aide hours, incontinence products. Ken tells it like it is, they kept coordinators and the one they hire are no so bright. Yeah, ArchCare should not be your first choice for new Medicaid home care.

05/29/2023

Ninty-Five with a new dress and four generation party

03/07/2023

01/18/2023

I have almost nothing good to say about hospice care in the present tense. Here is a journalist telling the true which is completely aligned with my experience

Half of all Americans now die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation.

01/18/2023

For-profit hospice care providers are a growing—and underregulated—part of the American health care industrial complex.

01/18/2023

If there are sick or old people in your life, this podcast about the purpose and operation of home hospice care is required listening. Every word of it is true. 99% of hospice care in the present age has only their best interest in mind and the hospice that I am unfortunate to work with are not for profit, but its the same math. If the government pays a daily rate and they get money for 180 days, how do they keep more money? By giving less care.

For-profit hospice care providers are a growing—and underregulated—part of the American health care industrial complex.

11/12/2022

In the company of a rocking ninety seven year old whose smile on a good day lifts my spirts. Happy birthday.