U.S. stock benchmarks turned higher Monday, following losses for all three major indexes last week as investors weighed brightening economic prospects against worries that interest rates will climb sooner than anticipated. Investors will be attentive to comments from a parade of speakers from the Federal Reserve, including those from Chairman …
Read More »The Moneyist: My sister put our mother in a nursing home, where she died of COVID-19. Should I take legal action against her or the care facility?
Dear Moneyist, My sisters and I disagree on most things, but never could I have imagined how our relationship would end. My parents put me down as the trustee and power of attorney for both their health care and finances in 1985, again in 2002 when they created a trust, …
Read More »Coronavirus was devastating Europe’s nursing homes well before the U.S. Here are the lessons they learned
In late March as the coronavirus pandemic spread to the U.S., news of a wave of deaths in Spanish nursing homes caught the attention of David Grabowski, a professor of health policy at Harvard Medical School. Tweeting a March 25 story about a probe into elderly coronavirus victims found dead …
Read More »Brett Arends’s ROI: The nursing home COVID-19 tragedy — how did this happen?
Charlie Baker wants answers. The governor of Massachusetts — a Republican, and a former health care executive — wants to know why so many people had to die in nursing homes from the COVID-19 epidemic. “This is one [topic] that’s going to require some pretty-heavy duty analytics,” he said Wednesday. …
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