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What We Should Expect Out of Our Nursing Homes

Dorian Martin
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Dorian Martin, who helped to care for an aging grandmother and was...

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All of this is to say that we need to decide how we want to take care of our loved ones as they age or those who become increasingly frail due to illness. We need to start demanding accountability and quality in our health care systems by both those who run them and the policymakers who oversee them. And we need to realize that what we do today is setting the tone for the quality of health care that we will receive when we approach the end of our own lives.

 

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