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85What Did The Baby Boomers Ever Do For Us?
So, you’re 60 something and you’re fed up with all the red tape, the inundation of small print, the political correctness, and the kind of people who perpetuate clichés like ‘political correctness’...
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75For Love Or Money: Caring For The Elderly
Caring for the elderly is one of the biggest challenges that anyone may have to face. I have done it for pay and I have done it for love, and I can say that the amount that you get paid is not near enough...
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75Issues in Nursing Homes
Everyone has an opinion about nursing homes. These opinions stem from a variety of sources. Some people form opinions about them from what they hear on the news, almost always negative. Others can attest from...
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85The 10 Signs Your Elderly Parent Needs Help
In When Your Parent Becomes Your Child I discussed the issue of aging parents that concerns all of us sooner or later. But how do you know that your parent is in need of intervention? Are you really seeing...
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81I'm A Recreational Therapist .......... Let Me In Here.
This is a kinda rant, to get out a little frustration, and hope it will make me feel a bit happier........It may be long winded, and you may think i am feeling sorry for myself. On the other hand you may...
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75What Is a CNA?
The fist line of defense for patients in nursing homes, hospitals, or other situations where they are in need of care, is the Certified Nursing Assistant, or CNA. What is a CNA? By definition, a CNA is a...
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69A Visit to Mr. Li in a Nursing Home
When I visited Mr. Li in a nursing home yesterday, he was happy to see me, and immediately began telling me what had happened. He was no longer having pain in his back and had planned to...
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67SWALLOW THIS THE TRUTH ABOUT TUBE FEEDING 43
Contrary to what most people believe the elderly in nursing homes are not dying of Parkinson's or even of Alzheimer's they are dying of an inability to tolerate food. The condition is known as dysphagia. The...
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74Prevent Nursing Home Elder Abuse
Placing a loved elder in a nursing home is one of the most difficult decisions you must make in life. Besides guilt, you do not need to add worries about the quality of care your loved one will receive,...
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65Protect our elders from nursing home abuse
Nursing home abuse and neglect has increasingly become a pressing issue that concerns our elderly today. This has become a scary epidemic that happens not just in other countries but in the United States....
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