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Hundreds of thousands of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are being denied the services they need because of a chronic workforce shortage. ....
ATLANTA — State agency officials have abandoned a controversial plan that would have limited at-home nursing care for about 200 people with disabilities, potentially upending life as they know it. ....
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Primary Content Caption Nick Papadopoulos, a 43-year-old who has been in a Royston nursing home for four years, is featured in a new film about the wait list for services in Georgia. Credit: Photo courtesy of the film, 6,000 Waiting The move into a nursing home in Royston was supposed to be temporary for Nick Papadopoulos, who was a 38-year-old living in Athens when an infected bedsore landed him in the rural northeast Georgia facility. Four years have now passed, which brought a pandemic that was particularly ruthless inside long-term care facilities. Papadopoulos has fought off COVID-19, twice. When a friend visited, he watched from a safe distance as she handed a gift to a staffer, as if it were contraband. ....