Nursing Home Makeover: Doctor Has Crazy Idea To Treat The Elderly As If They Were Human Beings

Nursing Home Makeover: Doctor Has Crazy Idea To Treat The Elderly As If They Were Human Beings
How One Doc Broke The Law To Bring Dignity–And With It Better Health–To The Elderly Some things you just have to learn the hard way. Here’s a stumper that apparently we still haven’t figured out as a society: The elderly like to be treated like human beings, not patients in a psych ward. Who knew? But all kidding aside, it is hard to overstate the grimness with which most modern American nursing homes are infused–especially those for people of little means.… Read the rest