Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Younger disabled people increasingly trapped in nursing homes

From AM NY:Robbie Cunningham (pictured) would like to live independently but sees no way to get out of the Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital & Nursing Facility, his home for the past four years. “I’m not sick,” he said. “I’m a quadraplegic."In the nursing home, he explained, “I have tremendous constraints on what I can do. I would like to choose what kind of food I eat, when I eat and when I go