It Shouldn't Be This Way

Author: Robert L. Kane M.D.
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 082651488X
Category: Medical

It Shouldn't Be This Way: The Failure of Long-Term Care

The failure of long-term care is the country's best-kept embarrassing secret. Download It Shouldn't Be This Way medical books for free.
Almost every adult in the United States will either enter a nursing home or have to deal with a parent or other relative who does. Studies show that 40 percent of all adults who live to age sixty-five will enter a nursing home before they die, while even more will use another form of long-term care.

Part memoir, part practical guide, part prescription for change, It Shouldn't Be This Way is a unique look at the problems of long-term care. Robert L. Kane, a highly experienced physician and gerontologist, and his sister, Joan C. West, tell the painful story of what happened to their mother after she suffered a debilitating stroke and spent the last years of Get It Shouldn't Be This Way our bestseller medical books.

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Almost every adult in the United States will either enter a nursing home or have to deal with a parent or other relative who does. Studies show that 40 percent of all adults who live to age sixty-five will enter a nursing home before they die, while even more will use another form of long-term care.

Part memoir, part practical guide, part prescription for change, It Shouldn't Be This Way is a unique look at the problems of long-term care. Robert L West, tell the painful story of what happened to their mother after she suffered a debilitating stroke and spent the last years of

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