Sri Srinivasan Quotes

Traditional nursing facilities are sterile institutions rather than homes - which is why many Americans do not want to live in one or want this as their only option for themselves or their family members.

Domestic workers allow many people with disabilities to maintain independent, productive lives and live in their own homes - not in institutions.

We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care.

Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.

One of the big things coming out of healthcare reform is a thing called the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS) which is a mechanism to reimburse people staying at home for technology and services that allow them to stay at home.

The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

The word 'carer' makes me think of someone with a nylon overall and a long list of 'clients' to wash before she finishes her shift. A companion was something unique. A kind of live-in friend.

Unlike traditional nursing homes, Green House homes provide elders with a high quality of life and quality of care in a setting that feels like a real home. By altering the facility size, interior design, staffing patterns and service-delivery method, the Green House model provides residents better, safer and more personalized care.

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes.

Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses.

Where patient needs are complex, we should provide greater support in the community so that patients can cut down on trips to the tertiary hospital.

When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home, and the most to institutionalize him.

Nearly every American will encounter the need for long-term care.

With the right care at the right time, a huge number of people could stay independent much longer, with a higher quality of life.

Women are the overwhelming majority of the workers providing long-term support to seniors and people with disabilities. As a result, women are the ones most affected by legislative decisions on long-term care.

I think there's a contempt for care work and caregiving in this country that seeps into how we think about mothers, professional workers who are mothers.

At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.

We must find a way to cover those who are no longer healthy but need care.

I don't want to hang around in a wheelchair in a nursing home. I don't. I don't want to be like that.

Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.

I definitely wanna open up some assisted-living facilities around my city.

A worker voting for Mitt Romney is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.