title: Involuntary transfers and discharges of nursing home residents under federal and state law.
abstract: When, as projected, nearly one out of every four Americans is age sixty-five or more, one out of every four Americans over sixty-five will spend time in a nursing home, and caregiver families scarcely exist, we will no longer be able to avert our eyes from the grim options faced by our senior citizens. Nor will we be able to continue to operate under the comforting but often false illusion that our convenient dispositions are actually serving the best interests of the elderly.
authors.affiliation: Missouri Department of Social Services, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Knepper
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006707:Homes for the Aged / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D007353:Insurance, Long-Term Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007872:Legal Guardians; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D008484:Medicaid / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010360:Patient Transfer / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States