The Honolulu Advertiser put together a multimedia package about nursing home deficiencies that includes text, video, a questionnaire to help patients and families choose homes, a nursing home databases and inspection reports.
The package’s second day, which focuses on sanctioning flawed nursing homes, is anchored by Rob Perez’ story on lax enforcement, reinforced by their daily collection of case studies and supplemented by a number of other stories and videos.
Other days focus on flaws in the system, how lobbyists prevail over advocates for the elderly and help in finding a care facility.
Slim guide: Covering the Health of Local Nursing Homes
This reporting guide gives a head start to journalists who want to pursue stories about one of the most vulnerable populations – nursing home residents. It offers advice about Web sites, datasets, research and other resources. After reading this book, journalists can have more confidence in deciphering nursing home inspection reports, interviewing advocacy groups on all sides of an issue, locating key data, and more. The book includes story examples and ideas.AHCJ publishes these reporting guides, with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to help journalists understand and accurately report on specific subjects.
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• More investigations of nursing homes
• Aging Nation: Troublesome Health Care Issues
• Headlines an advocate for seniors would like to see
• The impact of aging upon health care
• Covering nursing homes and other issues of aging
• How will retiring boomers affect the national health agenda?
• You Can Run, but You Can’t Hide: Policy and Problems in Long-Term Care
• Biology of Aging: Sources and Resources
