Spirals: The Jewish Nursing Home Dilemma


 

Publication Date: January 1993

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): David Dunkelman

Research Area: Health

Keywords: Elderly; Communal Organization; Social Services

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Jewish nursing homes are in the throes of a series of death spirals — government cutbacks of Medicaid funding, outmoded buildings that thwart the provision of quality care, location in declining neighborhoods, and a lack of close ties with the families of their residents and with the federation. These spirals interact to threaten the existence of Jewish Homes.