Aging in Place: Change can bring a lot of BMW


Claudette Hollenbeck

I currently live in a facility with roughly 145 residents, 25 of whom require their own building and staff due to dementia related issues mainly. It is a well run, pretty decent place. Probably the best thing about it is the quality of the staff all the way down to the kitchen boy. I asked the director who was here when I first arrived, “How did you ever find so many kind, caring employees?” She answered, “I fired the ones who were not.”


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