Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Phyllis Hotchkiss, left, talks to her son, Glen Hotchkiss, on April 14, 2016, at her nursing home in Adrian, Mich. Phyllis, 93, who has dementia and is confined to a wheelchair, was involuntarily discharged from her nursing home earlier in the year, to one further away from her family. Nursing homes are increasingly evicting their most challenging residents, advocates for the aged and disabled say, testing protections for some of society’s most vulnerable.

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Phyllis Hotchkiss, left, talks to her son, Glen Hotchkiss, on April 14, 2016, at her nursing home in Adrian, Mich. Phyllis, 93, who has dementia and is confined to a wheelchair, was involuntarily discharged from her nursing home earlier in the year, to one further away from her family. Nursing homes are increasingly evicting their most challenging residents, advocates for the aged and disabled say, testing protections for some of society’s most vulnerable.