In 1992 1.6 Million people, old and young, were trapped in nursing homes. It is not just the individual who is effected. The current bias is anti-family. Families are split apart because government policies will not help even children live at home. The bias is bad economically for us all.
Attendant services mean jobs.
On average it is cheaper to help people in their own homes. This bias is inhumane. More and more people choose to die rather than exist in a nursing home. A 1993 Wall Street Journal article outlined this phenomenon among older Americans. This national issue calls out for a nationwide solution.