MacLeod, Susan (Susan J.)
Summary: "When Susan MacLeod accompanied her 90-year-old mother through a labyrinthine long-term care system, it was a nine-year journey navigating a government without a heart in a system without compassion. Her family, much like the system, erected walls rather than opening arms. She found herself involuntarily placed at the pivot point between her frail, elderly mother's need for love and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conundrum Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 MACBarr, Nevada
Summary: "Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown to discover that she's been committed to a nursing home's Alzheimer's Unit. Rose has no memory of her committal and is sure that something is very wrong. She escapes but faces a challenge in proving her sanity. Her relatives committed her, the legal papers were drawn up, the authorities side with the nursing home. But when a would-be killer shows up in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BARSummary: When Sarah starts a job in a nursing home, to her surprise she is really good at it. She's a natural with the residents, and begins to form a special bond with Tony, a younger resident who has early onset dementia. The home is chronically underfunded and when the Covid pandemic hits, it suffers from understaffing, sickness and heart-breaking losses.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HELChurchill, Jill
Summary: Always looking for a way to keep Grace & Favor Cottage, former high-society siblings Robert and Lily Brewster agree to help out during a staff shortage at a nursing home, but after two deaths at the home, the Brewsters help the police search for a cold-blooded criminal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CHUAlberdi, Maite
Summary: A private investigator hires an eighty-three-year-old man to pose as a new member in a nursing home to investigate alleged elder abuse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures Llc 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MOLBatta, Patricia K.
Summary: Marge Christensen is visiting her mother and sister in Traverse City, Michigan, when several female residents of a nursing home are murdered. Marge's mother is recovering from several small strokes. In Patricia Batta's fifth novel, our heroine expectedly fails at keeping her nose out of the police business.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BATChurchill, Jill
Summary: Working at a local nursing home to help preserve Grace and Favor Cottage, former high society siblings Robert and Lily Brewster investigate the suspicious death of a patient despite a challenging number of suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUEvans, Richard Paul.
Summary: A man unable to decide whether to marry is helped to reach a decision by a woman patient in an old people's home where he is a nurse. By the author of The Christmas Box.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVAEvans, Richard Paul.
Summary: Resumes the moving but unfinished saga of Faye Murrow and Michael Keddington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION ENANSBourgeois, Paulette.
Summary: Emily comes up with a wonderful way to cheer her grandmother when the elderly woman is forced to leave her house on Maple Street after many, many years and move to Forest View Retirement Home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BOUEvans, Richard Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP Fiction Evans 2000Wilson, Cheryl J.
Summary: Having a loved one in a long-term care community (commonly called "nursing home") is difficult in the best of circumstances, but what happens when you have a problem with the care your loved one is receiving? Who can you turn to when you have questions? Have you ever been told:No, we can't give your mom three baths a week; we are only required to give two baths a week. Or,If you don't like the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BookBaby 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging WilsonSummary: When Allan lands in a nursing home, he refuses to celebrate his 100th birthday and instead escapes out a window to embark on a journey that involves a suitcase of cash and a gang of criminals. Flashbacks reveal that Allan played a key role in 20th century history when he was pals with U.S. presidents and Russian tyrants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ONE
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie 100 Year 2015Barr, Nevada
Summary: Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home. When she overhears one of the administrators saying that she's "not making it through the week," Rose is convinced that if she's to survive, she has to get out of the nursing home. She avoids taking her medication, putting on a show for the aides,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Barr 2019Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BARDe Goldi, Kate
Summary: Visiting her memory-impaired grandmother at a rest home every week, Perry discovers that her grandmother has an unconventional interest in the alphabet and becomes involved in a group project to make a personalized alphabet book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McClelland & Stewart Ltd 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DEGHeiser, K. Gabriel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phylius Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.16 HEISummary: Based on Paco Roca's award-winning graphic novel, the story opens with former bank manager Emilio being dispatched to a retirement home by his family. Like One Flew Over the Cuckoo₂s Nest in an old folks home, we are introduced to daily pill regimens, electric gates and an eccentric cast of characters who rebel against institutional authority, while doing everything in their power to avoid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WRIBuyea, Rob
Summary: "Told from different viewpoints, five seventh-graders, who face their own personal challenges, are also determined as a group to help two very special people reconcile a long-standing dispute"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUYFeeney, Alice
Summary: "Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Our Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises. Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEEKidder, Tracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.26 KIDKane, Robert L.
Contents: Background -- The stroke -- Rehabilitation -- Assisted living -- The dementia unit -- Nursing home -- Doctors, other medical personnel, and hospitals -- Informal care -- The roads not taken -- End of life -- What kind of long-term care do we want? -- What can we do about it?.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanderbilt University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.61 KANBarr, Nevada
Summary: Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home. With no memory of how she ended up in this position, Rose is sure that something is very wrong. When she overhears one of the administrators saying about her that she's "not making it through the week," Rose is convinced that if she's to survive, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BARNekola, Pat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Applewood Ink 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.831 NEKWalliams, David
Summary: Twelve year old Jack's grandpa lives in a rest home and often mistakes Jack for his World War II squadron commander, but when grandpa wants to escape his boring situation, Jack has to decide how he will help him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017