* G. Janet Tulloch; Nursing Home Reform Advocate

G. Janet Tulloch, 76, advocate for nursing home reform. Tulloch, who had cerebral palsy, had lived in a Washington, D.C., nursing home since 1967. As a long-term resident, she became painfully familiar with what she described as the “subtle abuses” inflicted upon nursing home patients--workaday humiliations such as having one’s food cut up too small, or having one’s privacy in the toilet violated by a nurse insisting on delivering medication. Tulloch wrote movingly of the experience in “A Home: Life Within a Nursing Home,” published by Seabury Press in 1975 to critical acclaim. The book offered a bitterly humorous fictional account of life in a nursing home by a woman who resembled Tulloch. She also testified before congressional committees on aging during hearings for the landmark Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987. Using a specially adapted computer keyboard, she continued to write until her death, including a column entitled “From Where I Sit” for the journal Aging & the Human Spirit. Tulloch was a native of New Haven, Conn., and grew up in Canada and Washington. On Wednesday of pneumonia at a Washington hospice.