Professor Nina Kohn in The Hill: When It Comes to Healthy Aging—Location, Location, Location
Location matters because it determines access to health-enhancing resources and exposure to health hazards. Racially discriminatory zoning and housing market practices have led to communities of color having higher concentrations of health hazards and reduced access to health-enhancing resources, such as greenspaces, accessible health care providers and healthy food ...

Professor Nina Kohn in WaPo: Coronavirus Might Keep Nursing Homes Residents from Voting
It has been a brutal year for residents of nursing homes. More than 40 percent of coronavirus deaths are associated with long-term care facilities. Forced isolation, including bans on family visits, has led to a secondary epidemic of loneliness and neglect. Now, nursing home residents face yet another indignity: the prospect that they will be unable to vote in the presidential election ...

Professor Nina Kohn in TIME: A Perfect Storm of Disenfranchisement in Nursing Homes
“When states create procedural barriers to voting, many people aren’t able to comply. And nursing home residents and long term care residents more broadly, are populations of people who are often not going to be able to clear those hurdles,” says Kohn. “It really is a perfect storm for disenfranchising nursing home residents” ...

Professor Doron Dorfman Reweighs Medical Civil Rights in Stanford Law Review
Civil rights law is at a crossroads. It’s tough to find vindication for injustice claims in the courts. Scholars and advocates are looking elsewhere for legal paradigms that will help provide relief.

JAMA Network Quotes Professor Nina Kohn on Elders and Voting
Some observers have raised concerns that votes cast by people with dementia might actually represent the views of those assisting them, although there’s little evidence of voter fraud in nursing homes, said Nina Kohn ...

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