Council approves proclamation designating October 2024 as Residents’ Rights Month
After the city clerk read a state-supplied proclamation, the council moved to allow the mayor to sign it; the motion passed unanimously. The proclamation recognizes National Long-Term Care Residents Rights Month and encourages citizen observance.
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The city clerk read a state-issued proclamation declaring October 2024 as National Long-Term Care Residents Rights Month and asking citizens to affirm residents’ dignity and self-determination. The proclamation recited national statistics (1,300,000 individuals in nursing homes and over 800,000 in assisted-living/residential-care facilities in the U.S.) and referenced the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987.
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