Center for Health Reporting covers closure of senior centers

USC Annenberg's Center for Health Reporting partnered with eight ethnic media outlets to cover the impact of more than 300 Adult Day Health Care Centers closing. About 38,000 senior citizens and disabled people will have to be put in nursing homes or get in-home care. Journalists working at the Center, as well as at local news organizations, tell their stories through videos, articles and audio slideshows. "One of two things will occur, either they'll be placed [in a nursing home] or they'll die," said Nina Nolcox, who opened Graceful Senescence Adult Day Health Care Center in 2006. "If you leave them at home and they don't have the supervision, they don't have the care coordination, they don't have the kind of things that we offer to keep them going." Legislators cut the state-sponsored programs, and funds are set to run out Dec. 1. The Center for Health Reporting teams up with California news organizations to produce in-depth reporting on important health issues.