The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Three Plagues of nursing home existence: boredom, loneliness, and helplessness.” — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Your house is lovely,” I say, even though it isn’t. It’s old; it could use a good cleaning. But the things inside… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“We were wearing diapers at the same time. We didn’t grow up together, however. I was in the crib, and she was… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Anyway, I like to appreciate my time with women, take it slow.” “Yeah, appreciate them right into a nursing home. You haven't… — Lindsay Cross Copy Share Image
“.. they look like they've escaped from a nursing home. Everywhere I turn I see puffy skin & radiant expressions, crinkles &… — Tim Latham Copy Share Image
“You could say I lost my cool when I got heckled, but I wasn’t cool to begin with. Man, those nursing home… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“That year, one of our lab members noticed that he had written two notes to himself, which he kept in his wallet,… — Suzanne Corkin Copy Share Image
Humans are born, small, weak and helpless. That's why we have family. And the elders of the family are the honoured guardians… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
“I close the book and text Livia back. Okay, Fern Woman. I’ll meet you at 8. Then I add, Are you super… — Laurelin Paige Copy Share Image
Being a Daddy is priority number one. When you are old and facing oblivion in a nursing home or a hospital or… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“Why, you want me to hook you two up?" Cordy eyed her, then let out a grunt. "Could you? Michael Thorley turned… — Gina Damico Copy Share Image
There's instinctual discomfort about using evidence of past immunity as a factor for decisions about health, work or even questions like whether… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I talked to over two hundred patients and family members about their experiences with aging, serious illnesses, and the big unfixables. But… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I promise that we will stay best friends forever and we are old, we will be tearing up the nursing home in… — IMynatot Copy Share Image
“Grietje showed me a photograph of the “Beach Room” at the Happy Days Nursing Home. (A name like that always makes me… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
If America does not wish to end her days in the same nursing home as Britannia she had best end this geo-babble… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Happy Grandparents Day from people you should appreciate for not yet putting you in a nursing home. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
“Can any of us pinpoint the moment when we've lost our younger selves, lost joy in the simple things, stopped celebrating life?… — Cheryl Jarvis Copy Share Image
“Hospice deploys nurses, doctors, chaplains, and social workers to help people with a fatal illness have the fullest possible lives right now—much… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
