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This way you have family close by to help you as you age and can feel at home. These communities typically offer meals, housekeeping, laundry, and sometimes transportation. This allows seniors to move from independent living to assisted living to skilled nursing care as they need it. NursingHomes.
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I mean, I, you know, when I was a fresh nurse, I wasn’t gonna come in there and say, because I had a degree, I knew more than these nursing assistants, who’d worked for 20 years, you know, on a unit. Suddenly people were realizing that, oh, you know, people wanted to stay home. Linda Leekley ( 13:52 ): Right?
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