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Country Meadows Retirement Community: One big family, caring for yours
At Country Meadows, birthdays are paid holidays, employees celebrate work anniversaries and everyone gets a Christmas ham. Employees are treated like family at the family-run business of caring for frail and aging adults who need nursing or personal care....
Tags: Hershey (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Nursing Homes, Government, Alzheimer's Association, Health and Medical Professionals
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Fellowship Community puts faith in staff, mission
How many employers would hire a high school senior to cut grass one summer, help pay for his college education and then give him the top computer job in the company three years later? Fellowship Community did just that for 23-year-old David Sutter of...
Tags: Government Health Care, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Medical Specialization, Whitehall, Cetronia
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Guns, schools and care
Guns and gun control were ever-present topics this week, from a Times article about a small town in Utah "considering guns for all" to the fatal shootings of two police officers in Santa Cruz. And, of course, attentive Times readers also responded to...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Shootings, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Firearms
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Rocky Hill Issues Cease And Desist Order Seeking To Block Opening Of Nursing Home For Inmates, Mental Patients
The Hartford CourantA cease-and-desist order has been issued by the town against the owner of 60 West St. for intending to open a "prison/penitentiary" in violation of local zoning. The order, issued by Assistant Zoning Officer Kim Ricci last week, represents the latest,...Tags: Nursing Homes, Lawyers, Trials, Interior Policy, Politics
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Singer Amy Grant Promotes Insurance Regulators In New Public Service Announcement
The Hartford CourantThe newest voice advocating to the public that its good to have a plan for long-term care of aging relatives is Christian-pop singer Amy Grant. The one-time pop singer who topped the charts in 1986 with a Peter Cetera duet "Next Time I Fall" —...Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Insurance
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A novel about people in a nursing home
"Life After Life" by Jill McCorkle, a Shannon Ravenel Book, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 352 pages, $24.95. Joanna sits with people in the hospice wing of the Pine Haven nursing home in Fulton, N.C. There is Sadie Randolph, a retired teacher; Marge...Tags: Medical Specialization, Agriculture, South Africa, Nursing
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Known for fun in sun, Villages now wants to build nursing homes
Age may be finally catching up with The Villages, the sprawling retirement haven for the over-55 that promises recreational activities "beyond imagination." It needs nursing homes. Proposed bills in the Legislature would allow developers of the...Tags: Medical Specialization, Nursing Homes, Credit and Debt, Nursing
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Dorothy L. Koch
The funeral service for Dorothy L. Koch, 89, of Aberdeen, formerly of Ellendale, N.D., will be 11 a.m., Monday, April 8, 2013, at Spitzer-Miller Funeral Home, 1111 S. Main St., with Pastor Nathan Henschen officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset...
Tags: Medical Specialization, American Legion, Nursing, Tampa, Zion
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Edna Katie Bertsch
Memorial service for Edna Katie Bertsch, 91, of Ashley will be 11 a.m. Saturday, April 13, 2013, at Ashley Baptist Church. The Rev. Bill Damberg will officiate. Lunch and fellowship will follow the service. Edna died Jan. 7, 2013, at Avera St....
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Specialization, Nursing
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New focus on laws that make adult children responsible for a parent's care bills
John Pittas' mother spent six months in a Pennsylvania facility recovering after an auto accident, then moved to Greece to be with her other children. Left behind: $93,000 in unpaid care bills. The facility sued to collect — from John Pittas....
Tags: Conservation, Nursing Homes, Schnecksville, Medicaid, Lawyers
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Dementia care costs more than treating heart disease or cancer
The financial toll of caring for Americans with dementia adds up to at least $159 billion a year, making it more expensive than treatments for patients with heart disease or cancer, according to a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine....
Tags: Medical Specialization, Diseases and Illnesses, Heart Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, Science and Technology
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Study: Dementia tops cancer, heart disease in cost
Cancer and heart disease are bigger killers, but Alzheimer's is the most expensive malady in the U.S., costing families and society $157 billion to $215 billion a year, according to a new study that looked at this in unprecedented detail. The biggest...
Tags: Physical Conditions, Nursing Homes, Medicare, Government, Alzheimer's Association
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