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Sorta like a rockstar
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Matthew Quick |
Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean … |
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Nasty, brutish, and long
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Ira Rosofsky |
A coming of old-age story.In nursing homes across the country, members of the Greatest Generation are living out their last days. No matter how exciting or mundane their lives, theyre now occupying a… |
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The money doctor's guide to taking care of yourself when no-one else will
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W. Neil Gallagher |
The Money Doctor's Guide to Taking Care of Yourself When No One Else Will Caring for a loved one--whether it be an elderly parent or spouse--is a reality facing many working adults today. Yet, man… |
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Medicaid and long term care handbook
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Scott, Sean W. Esq |
"A resource on the use of Medicaid to pay for the costs associated with a long term stay in a nursing home or assisted living facility. Includes sample strategies to protect assets and qualify for Me… |
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The hands of strangers
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Janice N. Harrington |
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Making myself at home in a nursing home
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Sandra J. Gaffney |
"Sandra Gaffney entered her first nursing home for long-term care at the unusually young age of fifty. Fourteen years earlier she had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also kno… |
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Centers for ending
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Seymour Bernard Sarason |
As people live longer and health care costs continue to rise and fewer doctors choose to specialize in geriatrics, how prepared is the United States to care for its sick and elderly? According to vet… |
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Nursing Home Administration
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Allen, James E. |
Designated a Doody's Core Title! The sixth edition of Nursing Home Administration contains essential information to prepare an individual for licensure and employment as a nursing home administrator.… |
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Paradise Lodge
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Nina Stibbe |
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Vogel takes a job as an "auxiliary nurse" at Paradise Lodge, a home for the elderly, and learns that her job entails helping the patients (frequently) to the bathroom. What be… |
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Love, Iris
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Elizabeth Noble |
Iris was once everything to her granddaughter. But now she's losing her grip on her precious memories, and it's too late for Tess to ask for the advice she needs now more than ever. Tess is stunned t… |
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Not your grandmother's nursing home
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Elizabeth L. Bewley |
Need a crash course in retirement living and care options, because a family member needs more help than is available at home?? Making care arrangements for a loved one about to be discharged from the… |
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A-Z care homes guide
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Deidri Surtees |
'A-Z Care Homes Guide' lists 12,319 care homes, 5306 care homes with nursing and 666 independent hospitals, clinics and hospices within the United Kingdom. |
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Forever and five days
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Lowell Cauffiel |
An account of the life and crimes of Catherine May Wood and Gwendolyn Gail Graham describes how the two lovers who worked the nightshift at a nursing home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, killed six patien… |
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Oma's Quilt
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Paulette Bourgeois |
Emily's grandmother is moving into the Forest View Retirement Home. Leaving her house and neighbors on Maple Street isn't easy after so many years. When Emily goes to visit, she finds Oma sitting in… |
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An army in Heaven
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Kelley Jankowski |
What do people see as death approaches? What will Heaven be like? What will Hell be like? An army in Heaven records the deathbed visions of hospice patients, as well as those in a critical care setti… |
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Borrowed summer
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Marion Walker Doren |
Upset that her beloved great-grandmother and an elderly friend are dying of neglect in a grim nursing home, eleven-year-old Jan and her Sunshine Club concoct a plan to get them out secretly. |
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Alice with golden hair
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Eleanor Means Hull |
An eighteen-year-old mentally retarded girl has problems adjusting to her job as an aide in a nursing home but soon finds that it brings her friendship and a feeling of self-worth for the first time … |
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Poor Mrs. Rigsby
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Kathy Herman |
CNA Sally Cox is about as happy to be at Walnut Hills Nursing Center as the patients are. But it's work or starve, now that her husband has found a younger companion. Sally's new crowd skews toward t… |
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What do you see when you see me?
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Jeannie Taylor |
On a visit to her grandmother in a nursing home, Katrina is confronted by scary Old Agnes and learns that things -- and people -- are not always what they appear to be. |
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Living well in a nursing home
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Dickinson, Lynn M.A. |
"Concentrates on the positive aspects of nursing homes and offers strategies for identifying the best facilities--a guide for maintaining and improving relationships between the elderly and their fam… |
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