Articles tagged: senior citizens
Armed With Lessons From a Dallas Serial Killer, Families Push for Reforms in Texas Law
Bills before the state Legislature this session would subject precious metal buyers to more scrutiny and protect assisted living residents.
Shannon Gleason Dion often holds a gold necklace with a guardian angel medallion when she testifies before the Texas Legislature. Her mother, Doris Gleason, wor...Read More
Closing Accounts
As the money runs out, hard choices in elder care
My grandmother wasn't really living; she was just surviving. The person I remembered, cherished and respected was vanishing. And the most painful and saddest pa...Read More
With Medicaid Cuts, Nursing Home Clients “Will Go to the Streets”
The House Appropriations subcommittee dealing with health and human services spent over a month listening to testimony on where to make budget cuts. Monday morn...Read More
A Death in McAllen
What Noe Martinez Sr.'s death reveals about the nursing home crisis to come.
Alone in the nursing home, as Alzheimer’s devoured his mind, Noe Martinez Sr. fastened onto a sliver of memory he would never forget. His son’s name...Read More