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| Aging Prison Population Calls for Nursing Care Partnerships |
| By nreionline.com- Robert Carr |
| Published: 12/23/2014 |
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Aging baby boomers have begun to affect the occupancy of another of America’s institutions—prisons,—and a few states are researching ways to partner with private nursing homes to care for them. Of the roughly 1.6 million people currently incarcerated in the United States, the number of those approaching senior citizen status is increasing rapidly. Between 1995 and 2010, the number of U.S. inmates ages 55 and older quadrupled to 124,400, according to a 2012 Human Rights Watch study. Seniors are expected to account for a third of the entire prison population by 2030, according to the study. In California, the state government is already sending ailing prisoners to private nursing home beds. The state passed California Penal Code 6267 in 2010, a law to provide long-term care to inmates. Joyce Hayhoe, director of communications and legislation for the state’s Correctional Health Care Services department, says those inmates who need 24-hour care and have not been deemed a danger to society, are placed in private nursing homes under certain conditions. Read More. |
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