Nursing Home Quotes

• Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.

  David Mixner

  Home, Nursing, People

  "Millions of Lives Will Be Changed By Home Health Care Cuts" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2010.

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• Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

  Steven Wright

  Children, Nice, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Home, Nursing, Half

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• There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

  Atom Egoyan

  Home, Son, Nursing

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.

  Misty Upham

  Lonely, Home, Nursing

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• Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.

  Ernest Hollings

  Home, Nursing, Said

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• At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.

  John D. MacDonald

  Relationship, Home, Commitment

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• My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Jobs, Home, Nursing

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• The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

  Ed Rendell

  Home, Nursing, People

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• The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

  Alice Munro

  Children, Home, Writing

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• Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you.

  T. D. Jakes

  Home, Divorce, Nursing

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• Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home.

  Dennis Miller

  Inspirational, Children, Home

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• It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff.

  Rick Renzi

  Home, Nursing, Order

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• Being a Daddy is priority number one. When you are old and facing oblivion in a nursing home or a hospital or on a golf course in winter, you are not going to wish you had spent more time at the office or making a sales call or watching a show. You will wish you had spent more time with your family.

  Ben Stein

  Home, Nursing, Golf

  Ben Stein (1998). “Tommy & Me: The Making of a Dad”, Simon & Schuster

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• My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.

  Kim Edwards

  Lonely, Strong, Jobs

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• Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Girl, Running, Baby

  William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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• Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured away, your life winnowed down to a few items on the table and some pictures of people who don't come around enough. When you are about to pass on, there is no quiet to attend you: busy fuss and professional zeal strive to bring you back, nail you to the soft cross of the rented bed.

  James Lileks

  Death, Home, Nursing

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• Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

  John Cage

  Home, School, Nursing

  John Cage (2010). “M: Writings ’67–’72”, p.22, Wesleyan University Press

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• These are folks that keep people out of hospitals, out of emergency rooms, out of nursing homes. And not only that, they help people achieve more fulfilling lives.

  Atul Gawande

  Home, Nursing, People

  "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.

  Steven Levitt

  Mother, Home, Mean

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• Ignore him," Heather begged. "I do. Constantly." Jean-Luc studied the coach, then turned to Heather with a wary look. "Every man in this town wants you." She laughed. "Yea, right. The old guys from the nursing home go into cardiac arrest whenever I walk by." His gaze drifted over her. "I can believe that.

  Kerrelyn Sparks

  Believe, Home, Nursing

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• I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.

  Debby Ryan

  Home, School, Nursing

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• Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Home, Nursing, Past

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• I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.

  Christina Applegate

  Cute, Home, Nursing

  "Good Morning America" Interview, August 19, 2008.

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• My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

  Douglas Preston

  Jobs, Hard Work, Home

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