Spread the Word
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Click on the link below to locate all of your representatives.
http://www.vote-smart.org/search_zipcode.php?
PHPSESSID=9ec2b8e0ad8137d68f3fcbb2642cef18&
type=zip&keyword=41071-1940
Type in your zip code (if you don't know your zip+4, a link will help you retrieve it). After entering your zip+4, press return, and all of your representatives will appear! - Write an email about nursing home abuse/neglect and send it to your representative(s) and your local news media. (For links to media see below.)
http://www.newspapersol.com/usa.html
Guide to U.S. Newspapers, Radio & TV
User can send an editorial to multiple media contacts automatically.
[If you would like, please send a copy of your email to mbcruse@goldentears.org]**A sample letter is at the bottom of this page.
OTHER PLANS OF ACTION
- Talk
to friends and acquaintances about nursing home abuse and neglect.
Refer them to http://www.goldentears.org - Encourage others to show their support by sending email to their representatives and their local media.
- Send
nursing home abuse/neglect scanned articles (with web references or
just include the website) to Maureen
B. Cruse, so we can include them in our "In the News"
section.
Together, we WILL be heard!
SAMPLE E-MAIL
(please change all information in bold type)
Dear __________ [insert name of representative(s)]
I have been personally touched by the plight of nursing home abuse and neglect and I want to see reforms made in the nursing home industry, NOW! I plan to vote my conscious, as my representatives vote theirs…. Please help to change this travesty against our nation's elderly.
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(If you have a particular news story, pending legislations, or personal story...please add it here. Pending legislation can be found at:
http://aging.senate.gov/index.cfm?
Fuseaction=Legislation.Home
Senate Bills of Interest to Senior CitizensNews Stories can be found at: News or by visiting:
http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml
FINDARTICLES.COM - A LookSmart Service
Type "nursing home abuse" (with the quotes) into the search box, and you will receive a list of news articles.______
[Please end your email with:]
Their tears are real and their pain is great. Their bodies are failing them...please do not let their country fail them, too.
My [mother, father, whoever] cried.
[Add their name to personalize the email. We MUST make politicians and the media stop seeing abuse/neglect victims as simply statistics!]
_____________________________________
[Your name and email address here]