1+ hour, 22+ min ago  (1080+ words) The Boston Globe Elder services shakeup hits towns south of Boston After an elder services organization ran into financial trouble on the South Shore, a different state-designated agency serving residents in Greater Plymouth County secured approval to expand into the…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (951+ words) Tens of thousands of senior Massachusetts residents may find that Medicare Advantage plans are charging higher premiums, shrinking provider networks, covering fewer drugs, and offering fewer perks as Medicare's open enrollment period gets underway. The popular plans managed by private…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (277+ words) Opinion | Mass. has extensive policies to hold nursing homes accountable'The Boston Globe Mass. has extensive policies to hold nursing homes accountable Margaret Morganroth Gullette's "Nursing home inspections ought to be random" (Ideas, April 5) does not reflect the recent hard work…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (311+ words) People considering assisted living residences would gain new clarity into costs and the availability of medical care, under a set of newly proposed state regulations. Residents would also gain rights similar to other tenants, including protections around fees and evictions....

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1503+ words) At 70, landscape artist Anthony J. Petchkis lives with a host of health problems. There was the heart attack that sent him on an ambulance ride from his home in the mountains of New Hampshire to Portland, Maine, for an arterial stent....

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (642+ words) State officials, advocates, and elder care experts on Thursday will debate new rules aimed at making assisted-living facilities safer for the roughly 17, 000 people statewide who rely on them. The proposed regulations come in the wake of last year's deadly fire…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (232+ words) Opinion | Pilot guardianship program could point way forward for patients'The Boston Globe Pilot guardianship program could point way forward for patients Kay Lazar's excellent story " "Stuck' patients strain hospitals: Guardians to make decisions in short supply" (Page A1, Jan. 28) once again…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (233+ words) Based on lessons learned from the Gabriel House fire, which killed 10 people, the report recommends new emergency preparedness requirements, including annual fire department reviews. Addressing fire safety is perhaps the most urgent job for legislators. But the commission also found…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (743+ words) A panel on Monday unanimously approved recommendations to boost state oversight of assisted-living homes following a devastating fire that killed 10 people at a Fall River facility in July. The recommendations by the Assisted Living Residences Commission call for improved staffing…...

6+ mon, 3+ day ago  (118+ words) A fire erupted on the third floor of Webster Park Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center at 56 Webster St. , according to the Rockland firefighter's union. Firefighters respond to blaze at Rockland nursing home Rockland firefighters said they were responding to a fire at…...