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    23 Days!

    MAY 13, 2012 2:15PM

    By trilogy


    Topics: nursing homes, aging, elder care, family

    • 28 Ratings
    • 704 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    Stuck In The Middle

    MARCH 24, 2012 9:39PM

    By trilogy


    Topics: family, mid life, nursing homes, elderly, parenting children and parents

    • 1 Ratings
    • 170 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Dr. Jackie's Mental Health Moment-Elder Care

    FEBRUARY 28, 2012 5:30PM

    By jackie2


    Topics: corruption, elderly, nursing homes, psychology, alzheimer's, dementia, mental health

    • 22 Ratings
    • 803 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    Driving to the Nursing Home

    FEBRUARY 9, 2012 9:43AM

    By jlsathre


    Topics: home towns, nursing homes, aging parents

    • 7 Ratings
    • 1056 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    This One's For Bridget

    FEBRUARY 1, 2012 1:25PM

    By Jersey Girl at Heart


    Topics: dementia, getting old, death and dying, nursing homes, finding friends in unexpected places, alzheimers

    • 1 Ratings
    • 310 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Why We All Can't Be Nurses

    OCTOBER 17, 2011 10:44AM

    By Laura Wilkerson


    Topics: judge judy, nursing homes, florida, medicaid fraud, economy, jobs, alzheimer's, dementia, health care

    • 2 Ratings
    • 243 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Hard Conversations

    SEPTEMBER 5, 2011 5:08PM

    By bnzoot


    Topics: rehabilitation, skilled nursing, assisted living, nursing homes, pulmonologist, pulmonology, muscular dystrophy, ventilator, tracheotomy, end of life decisions, friendship, friend, technology, health, family, belief/religion

    • 2 Ratings
    • 349 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Happy Birthday! Love, Your Insurance Company

    AUGUST 29, 2011 3:20PM

    By bnzoot


    Topics: business, economy, family, health, news, politics, science, friends, life, death, ventilator, respiratory, muscular dystrophy, tracheotomy, feeding tube, rehabilitation, nursing homes, assisted living, assisted living facility

    • 5 Ratings
    • 488 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Escape from Mama-traz

    JUNE 26, 2011 6:20PM

    By Erica K


    Topics: nursing homes, italy, cooking, illness, depression, self-impisonment

    • 1 Ratings
    • 226 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    The Corporate Lying Machine Alive and Well

    MAY 13, 2011 10:17PM

    By AspergerMom


    Topics: employment, complaints, nursing homes, open call

    • 55 Ratings
    • 1384 Views
    • 83 Comments
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    The Strongest Man in the World

    APRIL 27, 2011 6:35AM

    By rita shibr


    Topics: dads, nursing homes, childhood memories

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    • 14 Ratings
    • 2523 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    Dad, I Really Didn't Mean to Kill You

    APRIL 26, 2011 9:31PM

    By WhatsOneMore


    Topics: family, health, belief/religion, hospice, euthanasia, morphine, palliative care, nursing homes, elderly, advance directive, death, bereavement, protocol

    • 2 Ratings
    • 142 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Why I Give a Damn

    APRIL 15, 2011 9:19PM

    By Stephanie Lahr


    Topics: wtf, minnesota, afscme, steve drazkowski, hospital patients, nursing home residents, nursing homes, hospitals, nursing assistants, nurses, quality of care, quality of life, mn progressive project

    • 6 Ratings
    • 497 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Discovering a simple pleasure during complicated times

    JANUARY 19, 2011 7:49AM

    By cindy capitani


    Topics: senior citizens, grandmothers, aging, nursing homes, sparrows, feeding the birds, simplicity, hard times, relatives, love, cindy capitani

    • 1 Ratings
    • 332 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Thanksgiving Is Not a Grilled-Cheese Sandwich

    NOVEMBER 28, 2010 2:15PM

    By Stacy Selmants


    Topics: thanksgiving, family, nursing homes, cooking, food/drink

    • 0 Ratings
    • 128 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    New Report on How Consumers Can Improve Use of CMPs

    OCTOBER 29, 2010 11:53AM

    By Richard Mollot


    Topics: health, aging, nursing homes, medicaid, medicare, health care reform

    • 11 Ratings
    • 941 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Open Call: The Daddy Drawer

    JUNE 16, 2010 6:11PM

    By Living with Caer


    Topics: belief/religion, family, father's day, billy crystal, when harry met sally, new york city, nursing homes, ms, fathers, daughters, nostalgia, reflections on father's day, open+call

    • 12 Ratings
    • 677 Views
    • 37 Comments
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    Swans

    APRIL 25, 2010 3:26PM

    By xxxxx xxxxx


    Topics: hbo_jack, assisted suicide, love, eugenics, elderly, nursing homes, death, suffering

    • 9 Ratings
    • 467 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    About "The Announcer"

    APRIL 22, 2010 10:41PM

    By Eva T. Made Vaudeville


    Topics: radio; stardom, nursing homes, new york, rehabilitation, hospitals, deejay, announcer

    • 32 Ratings
    • 2217 Views
    • 46 Comments
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    My Mother Does Not Know Me.

    MARCH 19, 2010 6:37PM

    By SheilaTGTG55


    Topics: family, relatives, aunt, illness, old age, alzheimers, care, infant, healthcare, ghosts, nursing homes

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