The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "elder care" ...
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Tips for Investigating Caregivers
If there is concern over the care given to our elderly, Kissinger will give you the tips in order to investigate thoroughly. Learn who to talk to, to get the answers you need.
Tags: caregivers; nursing homes
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Assisted Living Tipsheet
The author discusses how to investigate long term care for the elderly. He explains the difference between nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The tipsheet also suggests documents and sources that will be useful for investigating either type of facility.
Tags: elder care; nusing homes; assisted living; Medicare; Medicaid; 911 calls; inspection reports
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Investigating nursing homes
Branstetter provides a number of tips for reporters who are covering nursing homes and/or those who care for the elderly. She also provides a list of story ideas, along with resources for those who are getting started on this type of story. En espanol: #2901.
Tags: health care; elderly; nursing homes; hospitals
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Digging for long-term care data/New stories about old people
A list of story ideas to follow when looking for inadequate elderly care and systemic problems, doubled by some internet resources to document research.
Tags: elderly; government; caregiver; Medicare
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Caring for the aged
Tips on subjects to follow on elder care stories and suggested sources of information for such subjects: FOIA and state public records laws, databases.
Tags: elderly; FOIA; nursing homes; Medicaid
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Beyond Bad Homes: Covering care for the Elderly
This tipsheet offers real advice for using data in stories of the elderly, such as when to decide that you have enough information, and which community sources can provide insight.
Tags: Medicaid; Medicaid Cost Reports; CAR; nursing homes; OSCAR; demographics; employee unions
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Tipsheet No: 692
This package contains lists of sources, databases, contacts and key documents that reporters should use when investigating home care for the elderly. Also included are sample stories from the Arizona Republic. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org.
Tags: 29 pgs.
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Tipsheet No: 673
The panelists give examples of enterprising computer-assisted stories on suicide, child deaths, guns, demographic changes, welfare, teen births, child care and elder care in their three-page handout. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org.
Tags: 3 pgs.
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Tipsheet No: 35
A list of selected health groups in Washington, D.C., including professional groups for dental and mental health care professionals and laboratories; advocacy groups for the elderly, laboratory animals; medical law specialists and other useful resources. Three pages.
Tags: None