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Covid & Culture Change

May 4, 2020 | Sonya Barsness, ChangingAging Guest Blogger

The people working in nursing homes do not need blame right now. They do need supplies, encouragement, and love.

Nursing Homes Need Support, Not Blame

April 15, 2020 | Jill Vitale-Aussem, Guestblogger

I had hoped, with the current focus on healthcare workers as heroes, that the demonizing of nursing homes would cease during the pandemic.

Beyond Being Known: Being Celebrated

March 5, 2019 | Jennifer Carson, PhD and Pat Sprigg, CEO

Residents are well known at Carol Woods Retirement Community. But there is a difference between being well known and being celebrated. Residents, employee and family care partners of the Building 6 and 7 assisted living neighborhood at Carol Woods are striving toward the latter. Kay, a resident, explains: We want to be, not a family, […]

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Mad as Hell Part 3: Death Chant

January 19, 2016 | Martin Bayne, ChangingAging Contributor

From an Oxycontin haze, I hear the death chant from a 90-something neighbor, three doors down the hall. The screams pierce every bone in my body and continues for hours.

How Will The Villages Age With Their Members?

Update: Mad as Hell Part 2

January 15, 2016 | Martin Bayne, ChangingAging Contributor

After 14 years fighting to maintain some shred of autonomy and home in assisted living facilities in New York and Pennsylvania, Martin Bayne is being evicted from his current assisted living. His next stop will be an “indeterminate stay” at a short-term rehab facility in a local CCRC.

I’m Mad as Hell and I’m Not Going to Take it Anymore

January 13, 2016 | Martin Bayne, ChangingAging Contributor

After 14 years fighting to maintain some shred of autonomy and home in assisted living facilities in New York and Pennsylvania, Martin Bayne is being evicted from his current home tomorrow with no alternative arrangement yet determined.

Why Baby Boomers Will Never Live in Nursing Homes

June 29, 2015 | Martin Bayne, ChangingAging Contributor

On February 4, 1974, the night Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, I was a 23-year-old Soto Zen Buddhist monastic novitiate, studying under the auspices of Reverend Master Jiyu Kennett, Roshi of Shasta Abbey, Mt. Shasta, California.

Elders as Secret Activists

May 6, 2015 | Elsa Bowman, Guest Blogger

When my mother reached the age of 100, I had to place her in a nursing home.

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