Aging
Ed Koch, Bob Weiner Urge Home Care Alternatives to Nursing Homes; Seek Congress Address 'Silent Sadness of Seniors' Forced Unnecessarily to Leave Own Homes
Published in Physician Business Week, July 17th, 2007
Former Mayor and Congressman Ed Koch, and former U.S. House Aging Committee Chief of Staff Bob Weiner, are rejoining forces as they did in the 1970's to urge home care alternatives to nursing homes. Koch and Weiner, who was Koch's legislative assistant in Congress, say that "national policy has reversed" from "common sense legislation" Koch and Weiner worked on and got passed to give senior citizens alternatives to nursing homes -- health care in people's own homes.
In an op-ed today in Newsday, "Congress Must Restore Funds for Home Health Care", Koch and Weiner say, "As the health care debate takes off in the presidential campaign and in Congress, let's not ignore the...
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