November 2, 2009: Article from Dr. James Claunch

[ElderPlans] RE: Abuse to Elderly Episcopalians and Their Families

The Growing Elder Rights Movement in America

The Epicsopal Church took the lead in the Civil Rights movement and is known as a church that has compassion for the poor.  This nation has a growing Elder Rights movement that is addressing the pain and suffering of the poor elderly, frail and disabled. Many of these people are being ripped away from their home church and community and being warehoused in big corporation nursing homes because it is the only solution offered to the elderly poor who depend on Medicaid.

$450,000,000 Projected Savings for Florida Alone in 2009

State Medicaid budgets will save 20% and these elderly and disabled people will get better care within their own homes if Elderplans’solution is enacted. The projected savings in 2009 for just nine counties in the state of Florida alone would have been $450,000,000.

This Poor Stewardship Is Costing the Church Resources

Adult children of these elderly would have been in church on the weekends rather than traveling to see their elderly parents in the Medicaid nursing home that had the first available bed. Their strained family budgets would have more money to give to the church without this abuse of the elderly draining their resources of time and money.  The present situation is beyond unjust. The church has a growing population of elderly Americans who need an advocate for Elder Rights.  The large nursing home corporations and their political power are hard to fight when one is poor, elderly and alone.

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