Kathleen Blanco 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.

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

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

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

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.

Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.

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

In advanced age, and in cases of disability from accident, natural infirmity or any other cause, the individual shall be supported by the colony, and receive every comfort which kindness can administer

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

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.

Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.

We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care.

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

Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.

Economically anxious, many parents see their children's accomplishments as a sort of insurance against the financial challenges of old age; high-achieving kids, this logic goes, will become high-earning adults and therefore be better able to help Mom and Dad pay for the assisted-living facility in a few decades.

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

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

I want to take my rapper money and start my own assisted living facilities in Houston because I see what it looks like when you got your grandparents take care of your great-grandparents.

Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices that let us live out our days as we wish. We've seen people making such choices all over America, and we realize what we might have known from the start: For most of us, there really is no place like home.

Those who value a strong safety net for our neediest citizens see that every extra dollar spent on these unions is a dollar that cannot go to help the sick, the elderly, and the vulnerable.

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

In an aging world with more chronic disease, health and healthcare are enormous opportunities that we want to focus on.

Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.

My grandmother is 82, and some days she doesn't even put her teeth in.

As more people live longer, we can expect there to be additional costs for society.