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More than 1.6 million Americans live in nursing homes today, a number |
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worse off after going into nursing homes than before they entered. Susan Dentzer reports on one man's effort to change that impression. |
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*Source:
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer/Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard
School of Public Health National Survey on Nursing Homes. |
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