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T. Gorton: “The impending retirement of the baby boom generation will greatly increase the demand and need for quality long-term…”

On the recordApril 6, 2000
The impending retirement of the baby boom generation will greatly increase the demand and need for quality long-term care and it is incumbent on Congress and the President to ensure that medicare and medicaid patients are protected from abuse, neglect, and mistreatment. Although the majority of long-term care facilities do an excellent job in caring for elderly and disabled patients, incidents of abuse and neglect and mistreatment do occur at an unacceptable rate and are not limited to nursing homes alone. Current Federal and State safeguards are inadequate because there is little or no information sharing between States about known abusers and no common State procedures for tracking abusers from State to State and facility to facility.
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T. Gorton
Republican · Washington
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the need for a national background check system for long-term care workers.

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