Kicked to the Curb: Nursing homes reveal their profit-minded side
Rose was sitting comfortably in her bedroom chair when an attendant walked in with a wheelchair and helped her to be seated in it. She...
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DR. PATRICIA A. FARRELL
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- Feb 13, 2018
- 3 min
Death Rather Than a Loss of Independence
A walk on the sidewalk near my home would prove to be more than just a refreshing day out of doors in a brisk winter. I'd walked around...
- Dec 15, 2017
- 3 min
Deceiving the Older American
Television is, for many older Americans, the medium where they receive their news and, in the process, are exposed to ads directed...
- Oct 23, 2017
- 4 min
Facebook: The new partyline
Before I was born, and probably for some time afterward, parts of the US that had phone service had to rely on a party-line setup where...
- Oct 3, 2017
- 4 min
Robbing the Elderly of Their Rights
The golden years may not be so golden, but that may not be evident to either the older adults in our society or even those who are...
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