Article: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: Can life in nursing homes be meaningful?

M2 PRESSWIRE-28 June 1999-UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: Can life in nursing homes be meaningful? (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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* Warner School team studies whether changes in organizational culture improve life

Living in a nursing home usually comes with dire expectations that all too often turn out to be well founded.

Many scholars and policymakers believe that the sterility, depersonalization and oppressively rigid routines that characterize even the best conventional nursing homes so damage people who live there that it is difficult to tell which aspects of illness or aging are truly organic, and which are produced by ...

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