Nursing Home and Elder-Care Residents Could be Hit Hard by Potential Medicaid Cuts

Medicaid funding cuts may impact nursing home residents and elder care services nationwide.

Jonas Atta-Kyereme helps 85-year-old David Reese dress in the morning and prepare for bed at night. He makes sure the retired pediatrician takes his medicine, and calms him when he gets anxious looking for his wife, Jane, who died last year. It’s a typical shift for Atta-Kyereme, a caregiver who began working in Reese’s home after the older man sustained a traumatic brain injury during a fall last year. “He needed 24/7 care,” said Reese’s brother-in-law George Sullivan. “He didn’t even recognize his own home that he’d lived in for 50 years.”