Editor’s Note: This is the first report in a four-part series about Connecticut’s aging population and the challenges in finding ways to care for people.
This week: The country’s aging population is expected to more than double. Connecticut’s network of supports is struggling.
Next week: Nursing homes face a reckoning as they deal with fewer residents, a change in pay and plans to ‘right size’ the industry.
Upcoming: As more people choose home and community options over institutional care, will access to services be equal for all?
Upcoming: More people are aging in place. But the state’s home care industry operates with little oversight.
Connecticut’s elder care system is at a precipice.
Nursing homes, for decades the final destination for many older adults and people with disabilities, are being squeezed at both ends as state officials increase oversight of the industry while funneling millions into programs that aim to keep residents in their homes and communities.
The state’s aging nursing facilities, beset by staffing problems, outdated infrastructure and dwindling financial support, are facing an identity crisis. Occupancy, which plunged steeply during the pandemic, has yet to fully recover. Complaints about the quality of care in some homes are escalating, as arequestions about how owners spend taxpayer money.Connecticut policymakers no longer envision nursing...
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