The elderly in America are among the most discriminated and exploited citizens! The Nursing Home Revolt is a nonviolent civil rights movement to reform the elder care system and guarantee the freedom, liberty and rights of all elderly Americans and senior citizens!
Welcome!
Welcome to the Nursing Home Revolt! The elderly in America need your support and help! You are invited to help in any way that you can.
The Nursing Home Revolt was founded by Terry Lynch in honor and memory of his dear mother, La Faye S. Lynch, who was unjustly made a ward of the State of Alabama which subjected her to rape of her civil rights, robbery of her income and property and exploitation by for profit, greedy nursing home operators, judges, lawyers and others who acted in their own selfish interest to effect the exploitation of an elderly citizen, widow of a US Army soldier and veteran, and most loving person.
The clenched fist of Terry Lynch with an image of his dear mother has been adopted as a symbol of the Nursing Home Revolt. Please help give your support to this movement by buying gifts and apparel with this symbol! You patronage will be appreciated. All fund raised will be used to support this site and further the Nursing Home Revolt!
How You Can Help
You may help the Nursing Home Revolt in the following ways:
Sign Universal Rights for Elderly Americans Petition. The elderly and incapacitated are among the most discriminated against and exploited citizens in America. You can help by signing this petition that all citizens may one day be permitted to appoint their own guardian/conservator.
Visit nursing homes in your area. Take photographs and make videos of what you see and find. Post these on YouTube or other Internet sites. This will help everyone see what is going on inside nursing homes.
Nursing homes generally do not want the general public to know what is going on inside them. That's a primary reason they have electronically locked doors, gates and/or 24/7 security guards. They especially don't want family members telling the truth about what is going on inside the nursing home. They want to hide behind closed doors so they can continue to exploit the elderly. The best way to fight this type of unseen exploitation of the elderly is to tell your story. Post your story on the Internet for everyone to see and hear! Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth! Establish a blog (online diary or journal) and report daily what you see going on inside the nursing home. Tell about your family member. Also request that family members have telephones with cams so they can keep in contact with you and take pictures of what is going on. This is NOT an invasion of privacy -- it is simply a way to honestly see what is going on and to help keep you informed of any abuse or bad treatment of your most loved family member. Also, if you work in a nursing home make reports and publish them online. If possible, try to make photographs and/or videos to show any abuse. It may also help to establish a web site similar to this one where you can tell your story and gather help and support to work to report conditions in nursing homes and work to reveal the untold horror stories so many families are experiencing when they fall into the nursing home trap! And it is a trap if the nursing home takes any action to retain patients, to rob them of their income, assets, homes or properties. There is no ever going back home if there is no home to go back to, something for profit nursing homes know well. So please help reform the broken elder care system by telling your horror stories and publishing them on line for the whole world to read!
Picket for profit nursing homes to draw attention to how they exploit elderly Americans.
Write your state and US Congressional representatives. Urge that they support legislation to permit all citizens to designate, specify and appoint their own guardian/conservator, that this NOT be a power granted to judges.
Adopt an elderly person in a nursing home as your friend and companion. Help provide them with gifts and much needed items. Visit with them as your time may permit to provide conversation, friendship, companionship and whatever other support you feel comfortable giving.
Make a living will, durable power of attorney and/or health care directives for yourself, as well as a last will and testament to help insure your own rights should you become incapacitated.
Start a Nursing Home Revolt chapter in your city or town. Sponsor meetings to discuss problems related to the elderly. This may include providing information and educational materials and/or support. Support groups for family members who have an elderly member are also needed. More and more people are being afflicted with Alzheimer's disease and dementia as they grow old. These elderly persons and their family members need your support and help, NOT to be exploited by a failed and broken elder care system.
If you are appointed guardian/conservator of an elderly or incapacitated person and they require care, consider home nursing care or care in a modern, resident community style facility as alternative to a nursing home.
Get an attorney to represent you and your most loved elderly family member BEFORE they are ever admitted to a nursing home. Have the attorney review all care provider documents BEFORE you sign anything. Be sure that there is a clause which states that the nursing home will be liable for all abuse, neglect, mistreatment, hurt and/or harm whatsoever, and that you may remove or transfer your guardian at any time, that the nursing home agrees NOT to interfere with your choice of nursing homes or in home nursing care should you ever deem a transfer or removal from their facility is deemed appropriate for any reason whatsoever.
Before you ever admit a family member into a nursing home be sure you meet with an attorney and properly transfer all real and personal property into the name of another family member and/or family trust (which excludes incapacitated persons), such that a nursing home or court appointed attorneys cannot get power and control over personal property. This is necessary because the law often permits raiding of family estates to cover the expensive care provided by nursing homes.
If you have an elderly family member that lives in your home or for whom you provide care, be sure they are examined by a doctor on a regular basis. Sometimes elderly people may neglect themselves not eating properly, not bathing or not doing other daily tasks to maintain their living environment. A doctor can help insure the health of an elderly family member and recommend any treatment or services that may become necessary as your elderly family member grows older.
Form a FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP. This will be a group of family members who agree to provide cooperative help and assistance for an elderly family member. You may draw up an agreement for each family member to sign. In this way you will not be isolated and alone in your efforts to care for an elderly family member, all interested family members may contribute to their heart's desire, and you may work together to provide assistance and care. This may help avoid future conflict should an elderly family member become incapacitated. Having a Family Support Group is a vital step in providing care for an elderly family member because it permits everyone to cooperate, to indicate what type of care or help they want to contribute and may avoid care provider disputes, serving also as a way to discuss and resolve such disputes among family members. Also having a Family Support Group provides an organized, cooperative effort to help and support an elderly family member and will help prevent any nursing home or court from taking advantage of a family to gain power and control over an elderly family member who may become incapacitated.
Avoid the TEMPORARY RESIDENT TRAP. The TEMPORARY RESIDENT TRAP is a method clever and deceitful nursing home staffers use to lure and trap unsuspecting family members to admit their incapacitated or disabled family members at a time when their is illness, duress or great distress. This is a method of marketing and selling nursing home care, which deceives family members into thinking that it will be temporary care. You need to take great care to avoid falling into the TEMPORARY RESIDENT TRAP. Nursing homes use the status of "temporary" as an easy way to get family members to admit a disabled or incapacitated family member. Then the nursing homes may appeal to the court to have someone else appointed guardian/conservator, this being a non relative. For profit nursing homes are operated and administered by people who know how to gain power and control over the elderly and are represented by powerful legal firms. They can use the courts to gain power and control over all income, assets, real and personal property. Therefore it is very important that you NEVER admit a family member as a "temporary" resident prior to contacting an attorney to be sure all property is first legally transferred into the name of another family member and the nursing home signs an agreement or contract that permits you to remove and/or transfer your most loved family member at anytime and for any reason deemed appropriate. By doing this you will avoid the nursing home "TEMPORARY RESIDENT TRAP" that is so often used to lure family members into admitting their loved ones into a nursing home where they, in effect, become committed for life and will remain until the day they die.
Never make an agreement to admit a most loved family member to a nursing home without first consulting with an attorney and getting all documents in order to protect your rights and property as well as the rights and property of your most loved elderly family member. Also have the attorney prepare an agreement for the nursing home to sign and to review any agreement or contract that the nursing home requires to be sure the nursing home assumes liability for all hurt and harm and do not write this off as something they are not responsible for or which you know they are not liable for given an illness or existing condition. Never permit a nursing home to write off existing conditions as a way to avoid liability! Such agreements should never be signed and indicate that the nursing home may be more interested in profit and money than in providing responsible and quality care.
If you have other good ideas of ways to help the elderly send them to Terry. We would also like to receive your testimonials with respect to your experience regarding elderly family members and/or problems you may have had dealing with nursing homes. Also we encourage everyone to make home videos and post these on YouTube so that the whole world may watch and learn from your experience how the elderly are being exploited and how families are being mistreated by those involved with the elder care system in America or around the world.
Educational and Informative Videos
Please watch these videos related to the issue of elderly health, care and welfare.
