Mary Dow Brine
The woman was old and ragged and gray And bent with the chill of the Winter’s day. The street was wet with a recent snow And the woman’s feet were aged and slow. She stood at the crossing and waited long, Alone, uncared for, amid the throng Of human beings who passed her by Nor...
Rose is a 72 year old widow living in the nursing home for the past 3 years with relatively little difficulty. She had a minor stroke a few years back which caused relatively minor neurologic damage on the left side of her body causing her to have a slight drag in that foot. At the...
The largest organ in the human body is the skin. The enemies of the skin are pressure, moisture, and sheering forces. As skin ages it becomes less elastic and on the cellular level, less sturdy. Skin tears, abrasions and decubitus ulcers (bedsores) and other breaks in the skin expose your loved one to dangerous and...
I want you to remember this and remember it well: “A nursing home is a business.” While many nursing homes are not for profit or so called charitable organizations, the large majority of them are a business like any other. And just like every other business they have one main goal; to make money. If...
