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AARP wants caregivers to be a focus when it comes to surplus spending.

As Wisconsin pushes through the Omicron surge, AARP is urging people to ensure their loved ones in assisted living facilities are protected.

There is a gap between patient and staff vaccination rates at Wisconsin’s nursing homes, and that gap widens when looking at data from some local nursing homes.

The Daily Yonder Industry Lobbying Left Nursing Homes Vulnerable in Pandemic Lax regulations and minimal enforcement left the nursing homes exposed to dangers of highly transmissible diseases long before the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic hit. Share this: Nursing home employee Ashley Ford at her home in DeMotte, Indiana. (Photo by John J. Watkins for The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting) Even before Covid-19, aides caring for elderly and disabled people in nursing homes often were o...

MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsins debate over the next state budget is far from over, but the spending plan outlined by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has strong support from advocates of older residents. ...

AARP report finds 2.7 deaths per 100 Wisconsin residents in most recent month measured.

AARP wants lawmakers to help family caregivers in Wisconsin Family caregivers have come under increasing stress during the pandemic. Helen Marks Dicks with AARP Wisconsin estimates there are 600,000 family caregivers in Wisconsin – and the pandemic has caused an increase in family members needing to step in, for two reasons. “Number one, you can’t get the kind of help with people coming into the house. And number two, at some particular point if you get too overwhelmed, nursing home or as...