Vital Nursing Home Care
1/16/2017
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If anybody loves or cares about a resident of a nursing home or a person receiving care at home (one who is even partially or largely dependent), detailed plans must be established and continually evaluated in order to provide for the utmost well-being of this needy person.
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Declining Parent and Nursing Home
1/16/2017
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I am writing this essay in order to reflect upon a very special time in my life and also to offer my story and opinions so that other people might benefit from my experiences. Never have I been confronted with any challenge and solemn responsibility that could equal the role I assumed for approximately ten years as the primary caregiver for my totally dependent mother, who suffered from gradually worsening Parkinson’s disease for the last thirty years of her life, until she finally had significant dementia, could not talk, walk or change positions while sleeping, was unable to groom or feed herself and, for the last few years of her life, could be said only to be “existing” and not living.
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