Carter Catlett Williams

Carter Catlett Williams was a social worker. She worked to change nursing homes so that older people living in them had more freedom. She started the Pioneer Network. It is a not-for-profit organization that works to make nursing homes better. She was a leader in creating the Nursing Home Reform Act in 1987. The University of Rochester Medical Center keeps her papers.

Williams was born on September 2, 1923 in Texas and died on September 8, 2020 in Gloucester, Virginia. She was 97 years old.

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