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Moira Welsh

Moira Welsh is an investigative reporter and the author of Happily Ever Older: Revolutionary Approaches to Long-Term Care.

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A Hopeful Reckoning

In search of long-term solutions April 2021
In the Irish indie film Once, two ­struggling musicians write a song called “Falling Slowly,” an appeal of sorts to “raise your hopeful voice.” Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová didn’t have nursing homes in mind, of course, but when I set out to investigate the best in long-term care, those lyrics, that…