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One of our earliest COVID podcasts with Jim Wright and David Grabowski a year ago addressed the early devastating impact of COVID on nursing homes.\\xa0

One year ago Mike Wasserman, geriatrician and immediate past president of the California Long Term Care Association, said we\\u2019d have a quarter million deaths in long term care.\\xa0 A quarter of a million deaths.\\xa0 No one would publish that quote - it seemed inconceivable to many at the time.\\xa0 And now, here we are, and the numbers are going to be close.

In this podcast we look back on where we\\u2019ve been over the last year, where we are now, and what\\u2019s ahead.

One theme that runs through the podcast is that if this level of death, confinement, and fear occured to any other population, change would have been swift.\\xa0 But nursing home residents, for the most part, don\\u2019t have a voice, they\\u2019re not able to speak up, they lack power to move politicians and policy.\\xa0\\xa0

Mike Wasserman is a provocateur.\\xa0 He is a needed voice for the nursing home residents and the nursing home staff who often are not able to speak for themselves.\\xa0 He is regularly quoted in major news outlets, and was in the Washington Post about opening up nursing homes to visitation the day of our podcast.\\xa0 If you don\\u2019t follow him on Twitter @Wassdoc you should!

-Link to Wassmerm and Grabowski\\u2019s article in the Health Affairs blog on the need for financial transparency in nursing homes.

-Link to webinar about what to do about COVID in long term care from April 2020

-@AlexSmithMD