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Senior Health Report Dispute

May 28th, 2014 by flanews

A national report puts Florida in the bottom half of states for Senior care. But as Matt Galka tells us, the state department in charge of programs for the elderly says the facts aren’t all there.

Florida has the highest population of seniors in the country. But a new national report on senior health care puts the sunshine state at 28th overall in taking care of those 65 and older.

“Admittedly we have some challenges particularly in rural areas, overall we don’t see the kind of problems accessing the sorts of services that this might lead you to believe exists,” said Department of Elder Affairs Secretary Charles Corley.

The report says Florida is dead last in the amount of in home health care workers available for seniors. But the state isn’t sure what metrics were used to make the judgement.

“It’s a workforce measure, so whether that translates into an accessibility measure or not, you can’t really garner from this report,” said Corley.

The report says Florida was one of the states with the highest amount of seniors chronically drinking, but fared well in other categories like hospice care and diabetes management.

Florida was 11th overall for nursing home quality. Executive director for Families for Better Care Brian Lee says that number isn’t bad, but is quick to point out the states nursing home watch list.

“One in five nursing homes are on that watch list for chronically dangerous nursing home conditions,” said Lee.

Florida’s overall rank fell from 27th last year. The Department of Elder affairs says they are researching the report and seeing if there is anything they can take away from the findings.

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