{"id":17769,"date":"2021-03-04T08:01:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T13:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17769"},"modified":"2021-03-04T08:01:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T13:01:11","slug":"reopening-of-long-term-care-facilities-is-an-absolute-necessity-for-our-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17769","title":{"rendered":"Reopening of Long-Term Care Facilities Is \u2018an Absolute Necessity for Our Well-Being\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>For nearly a year, nursing homes and assisted living centers have been mostly closed to visitors. Now, it\u2019s time for them to open back up and relieve residents of crushing isolation, according to a growing chorus of long-term care experts, caregivers, consumer groups and physicians.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re calling for federal health authorities to relax visitation restrictions in long-term care institutions, replacing guidance that\u2019s been in place since September. And they want both federal and state authorities to grant special status to \u201cessential caregivers\u201d \u2014 family members or friends who provide critically important hands-on care \u2014 so they have the opportunity to tend to relatives in need.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/advocates-push-to-reopen-nursing-homes-assisted-living-to-visitors\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) For nearly a year, nursing homes and assisted living centers have been mostly closed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-emerging-health-issues","category-nursing-homes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17770,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17769\/revisions\/17770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}