Nursing Home Advocacy

NURSING HOME ADVOCACY
 THIS PROGRAM QUALIFIES FOR 2 CLE ON THE CPCS MENTAL HEALTH PANEL AND MENTAL HEALTH APPEALS PANEL

PANEL DISCUSSION WITH:

 PENNY SHAW – Longtime Resident and Advocate for the rights of nursing home residents; Aging and Disability Advocate; PhD French literature and language.

• Personal experience as a nursing home resident
• Self-advocacy in the nursing home
• Advocating for the rights of nursing home residents
• The overuse of antipsychotic medication in nursing homes
• Misdiagnosis of mental illness

 FRANK BASKIN – LICSW, MSW; Member of Dignity Alliance; Advocate for the Elderly.

• Dignity Alliance – an advocacy organization for the elderly.
• Experience in assisting CPCS mental health counsel as a social worker.
• Getting an individual out of a nursing home.

 ATTORNEY JOHN FORD –Director, Elder Law Project, Northeast Justice Center, Lynn, MA since 1977.

• Legal advocacy for nursing home residents and the elderly.
• Discussion of pending federal case.
• His experience as an advocate for the elderly for the past 51 years.

 HOW TO REGISTER:

   PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE BY USING THIS LINK:

 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMod-mqqDMoHtI_IGD99b0U4cxNY5Kw1S-i

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!! IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CONTACT EITHER:

ELAINE POURINSKI, RC for Hampshire/Franklin – [email protected]

JOAN LEGRAW, RC for Barnstable/Plymouth – [email protected]