Pennsylvania\u2019s senior care system is in crisis and is losing nursing home capacity by the thousands \u2013 fewer communities, fewer beds, and most importantly, more older adults are being turned away from the high-quality care they need and deserve close to home.<\/p>\n
The term \u201csilver tsunami\u201d was initially meant to signal a future challenge: The rapidly growing aging population that will inevitably flood the health care ecosystem.<\/p>\n
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Garry Pezzano is president and CEO of LeadingAge PA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania\u2019s senior care system is in crisis and is losing nursing home capacity by the thousands \u2013 fewer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40583,61,59984,1057,3831,7939,18072,5958,91921,28,30,29,63,3429,5651],"class_list":["post-209396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-ageing","tag-economy","tag-elderly-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-medicaid","tag-nursing","tag-nursing-home","tag-old-age","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-social-issues","tag-social-policy","tag-social-programs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}