Senior Day-Care a Victim of Medicare Funding Crisis
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › January 10, 2012
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One of the state's longest-running medical day-care programs for elderly and disabled residents is shutting down, a casualty of the growing funding headaches in New Jersey's long-term-care industry.
Residents and their loved ones are scrambling to find other options when the Daughters of Miriam Center in Clifton closes the program on Feb. 3.See the full content of this document
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Senior Day-Care a Victim of Medicare Funding Crisis
"I didn't sleep for two nights after they told us about it," said Susan Fenkanyn, 88, who has severe asthma that sometimes leaves her so short of breath that she has trouble walking.
It's possible that some of the center's 50 clients, particularly the 18 seniors enrolled in a day program for dementia sufferers, will have to enter a ...See the full content of this document
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