Globe Spotlight, Part 3: Homey, coveted, costly — and crushed by the pandemic
Families, especially those with means, sought to place their frail elders in Belmont Manor, a five-star nursing home. It was a safe refuge for the twilight years, until suddenly it became something else entirely: a case study in the coronavirus's indiscriminate power.

Read Part 3 of Spotlight's "Last Words" series.
It's harder for the poor to get a nursing home bed
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Is death the great equalizer?
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Death in Mass., by the numbers
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