📋 AARP Fights Effort to Delay Nursing Home Standards (AARP Article/Advocacy)
AARP Pushes Back on Effort to Delay New Federal Nursing Home Staffing Standards to 2035.
Rule offers dignity and safety to our most vulnerable Americans.
By Natalie Missakian and Nancy Kerr, AARP. Published May 14, 2025.
A plan to delay long-overdue minimum nursing home standards would cost lives and delay important protections needed for people living in nursing homes.
In a May 13 letter to the U.S. House Committee on Energy & Commerce, AARP noted deep concerns about a proposed delay to these standards, which would require an increase in staff at nursing homes and the presence of a registered nurse on-site at all times. The standards are set to take effect in stages starting in 2026, but this plan would delay them until 2035. Republican lawmakers are seeking cuts across federal programs to offset President Trump's massive tax bill, which would extend and add to tax breaks.