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(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

The phone call came as a shock. Your aunt can\u2019t transfer into memory care; we have to discharge her from this facility, a nurse told Jeff Regan. You have 30 days to move her out.<\/p>\n

The next day, a legal notice was delivered. Marilou Jones, 94, who has dementia, was being evicted from Atria at Foster Square, an assisted living facility in Foster City, Calif. The reason: \u201cYou are non-weight bearing and require the assistance of two staff members for all transfers,\u201d the notice said. Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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