“I haven’t seen my old friends in a while. Maybe next week I’ll go visit them in the nursing home.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
“The whole notion of the nursing home was something dreamed up by people like my mother; American women with sunglasses, always searching… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“If you take any longer,” Rutilio chortled, “Sierra here will be in the nursing home by the time you’re done. Anyway, your… — Daniel José Older Copy Share Image
“When she comes to retrieve me [in the nursing home], after the tan-colored pudding with edible oil topping has sat for a… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“a man in California who can track whether his father with Alzheimer’s disease, who lives in a nursing home in the United… — Bertalan Mesko Copy Share Image
With the Trump Administration proposing deep cuts in Medicaid that would take a toll on nursing home services, it will be absolutely… — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image
I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12… — LisaRaye McCoy-Misick Copy Share Image
'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo.… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we… — Raymond S. Moore Copy Share Image
At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
“A very bouncy Kyle woke Livia at some ridiculous o’clock on Friday morning. “Wakey-wakey, you sloppy, old whore. It’s time to do… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Happy National Philanthropy Day! Do a good deed today and make the lives of others better. Things you can do(if you can… — Kambiz Mostofizadeh Copy Share Image
“Hello, spawn!” I coo at Kayla’s baby brother as he waddles into her room. He burps at me. “It looks like you… — Sara Wolf Copy Share Image
“In the blink of an eye, Barbara had turned ninety-five. Taking her final breath in the Ottowan Nursing Home in Goodsprings, Nevada,… — Jamie Schoffman Copy Share Image
And isn't that weird? Think about this, when you're born, you nurse on your mama. And then you get a little older,… — Bill Engvall Copy Share Image
“It just wasn’t supposed to end like this.” She looks at me with red-rimmed eyes and yellow skin. Colors should be a… — Kelsey Sutton Copy Share Image
“I spent a lot of time as a volunteer in a nursing home in Amherst last summer. I was reading Dante's Divine… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“This time, she came back to Longwood House in a wheelchair and needed help with virtually all of her everyday activities—using the… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Three days a week she helped at the Manor Nursing Home, where people proved their keenness by reciting received analyses of current… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I had the experience of having my grandmother in a nursing home at the end of her life, and had dementia set… — Tamara Jenkins Copy Share Image
“When Mom and Dad die, they’re taken care of by strangers in a nursing home two towns over. The kids don’t have… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Another federal law makes it a felony for any person “knowingly to deliver or cause to be delivered for transmission through the… — James Duane Copy Share Image
“One day, however, they had an experience that revealed just how fragile their life had become. Bella developed a cold, causing fluid… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“how she’d ended up in Sanborn Place. That was when she told me about her son Wayne. Wayne was a twin born… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“10. What realities are captured in the story of Lou Sanders and his daughter, Shelley, regarding home care for an aging and… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“The room does not smell like apple. It smells like frog juice, a cross between a nursing home and potato salad. The… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm bored, I think I'll put on a grim reaper costume and stand across the street from the nearest nursing home and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you something, Doctor. There is no way in heaven or hell that we will be sending Melody away to… — Sharon M. Draper Copy Share Image
It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
When I get married, she'll be my maid of honor, when I have a baby, she'll be the godmother. and when I'm… — Im_a_bad_bishh Copy Share Image
The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it… — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
“All, Pyle? Wait until you're afraid of living ten years alone with no companion and a nursing home at the end of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
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