Protecting the Rights of Long-Term Care Residents

The right to vote is only one in a long list of long term care residents' rights, including the right to health care and the right to quality of life. With the highest COVID 19 fatality rates of any group, and the toxic effects of prolonged isolation due to pandemic quarantines, older adults, people with disabilities, and their advocates are working with the Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman to make sure those rights are met. In this meeting from November 16, 2022 hosted by Ethnic Media Services (EMS), we will hear from: Blanca Castro, State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Jerry Kirouac, Coordinator, PSA 2, Area 2 Agency on Aging/ Long Term Care Ombudsman Hagar Dickman, Staff Attorney, California Justice in Aging Two long term care residents, story tellers Dr. Anna Chodos, Associate Professor of Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Zuckerberg San Francisco General, UCSF and Geriatrics, Medicine, UCSF