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"In 1871, Kirstin Hallberg arrives in Duluth, Minnesota, to find the city council intent on building a canal and ensuring the city's rise to greatness. She's come to care for her elderly grandmother Lena Segerson only to discover Lena very full of life and full of secrets. For when Kirstin opens their front door one day, she finds the brother she long thought dead on the other side. Domar begs his sister to say nothing to their parents, viewing their...
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River Haven volume 3
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2020.
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Rachel Hurst sacrificed the life she wanted to stay home and care for her father and siblings after her mother's death. But now her father has decided to remarry, and there's no room for Rachel. Desperate to find a job, she accepts the position of housekeeper for a wealthy elderly woman in her isolated mansion. Jacob Beiler thought he had gotten over Rachel's rejection, but when she arrives as the new housekeeper, he is battered by both joy and bitterness...
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The Child and Adult Care Food Program offers benefits to elderly and/or functionally impaired adults in non-profit and eligible for-profit adult day care settings. For each type of setting, the CACFP regulations define eligibility requirements. In addition, the CACFP requires participating organizations, referred to as institutions throughout this manual, to meet several performance standards, which demonstrate the institution's financial and administrative...
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2010.
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The Child and Adult Care Food Program offers benefits to elderly and/or functionally impaired adults in non-profit and eligible for-profit adult day care settings. For each type of setting, the CACFP regulations define eligibility requirements. In addition, the CACFP requires participating organizations, referred to as institutions throughout this manual, to meet several performance standards, which demonstrate the institution's financial and administrative...
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Quick response research report volume 172
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[2004]
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The purpose of this research was to identify current evacuation procedures for the nursing home population and document the baseline status of facilities and the procedures utilized in evacuations.
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"Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse ... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds...
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"[P]hysician and [...] author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is a [...] look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease,...
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In his bestselling memoir, Look Me in the Eye, the author described growing up with Asperger's syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didn't exist. He was intelligent but socially isolated; his talents won him jobs with toy makers and rock bands but did little to endear him to authority figures and classmates, who were put off by his inclination to blurt out non sequiturs and avoid eye contact. By the time he was diagnosed at age forty, he had already...
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2020
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Featured as part of the Pandemic Collection in the Museum of Health Care at Kingston. Written during the pandemic, about the pandemic. A race against time to bring the cure for a deadly virus to a dying spouse. Will Mark arrive at the hospital in time to save his wife? No matter what, Mark's life will be forever changed by his Covid Odyssey.
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As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth...
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2016.
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The 2014 CMS Final Rule for Medicaid funded Home and Community Based Services (HCBS Final Rule) programs marks an opportunity to build a truly person-centered service delivery system that supports older adults and people with disabilities. Implementation of the rule will help thousands of Colorado's older adults and people with disabilities to enjoy the full promise of community living by prioritizing the quality of each individual's experience.