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For most families, loved ones and close friends, the decision to place someone in a nursing home can be a very traumatic experience largely due to the guilt many people feel about leaving their special person in a facility, no matter how nice the nursing home may seem. This book explains that their fears are not unfounded because unless a nursing home is a culture change facility, it is not a nice place to live.

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Roberta Weathers is from the Finger Lakes area of New York State. She has a Bachelors degree in Sociology and a master's degree in Organizational Management. She has worked with the older population for over twenty years in different capacities, first as a nursing assistant then as a home health aide and also as a Social Services Director in a long term care facility. She has worked in the traditional nursing homes as we know them in America. The way they are set up and run has been important to her as they do not resemble a person's home.

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