Arizona is currently in last place nationwide in terms of nursing home residents and staff being up-to-date on their COVID-19 boosters. That s according to AARP s Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard. "Up-to-date" means a person has gotten the new bivalent shot, or has completed the primary series of vaccines or boosters within the last two months. " .
November is National Family Caregivers Month, which focuses on unpaid care work. Home and Community Based Care services play a role in shifting the elderly away from being institutionalized but their funding has been cut in Missouri, which threatens wrap-around services that keep people out of nursing homes.
November is National Family Caregivers Month, which focuses attention on the unpaid care work of family members. The care provided by families often is enabled and supported by state-funded wrap-around services. Over the last few decades, Missouri and other state governments around the nation have funded Home and Community Based Services - or HCBS - as a cheaper alternative to nursing-home care. .
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) Missouri state senators on Monday advanced two strategies for cutting income taxes, but behind-the-scenes negotiations were still ongoing. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted out two bills on income taxes for the full Republican-led chamber to debate.