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Thank you to all the geriatric doctors out there

Ch 3, “Dependence,” on the history of nursing homes: “We end up with institutions that address any number of societal goals - from freeing up hospital beds to taking the burden off families’ hands to coping with poverty among the elderly - but never the goal that matters to the people who reside in them: how to make life worth living when we’re weak and frail and can’t fend for ourselves anymore.”