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Released: November 01, 2011
Nursing home shrinks until it feels like home
Toni Davis spent much of her childhood roaming the corridors of a nursing home in West Orange, N.J., where her mother was the director. Even now she recalls the pleas of the residents there: “ ‘Please help me, please take me home with you,’ they’d beg,” Ms. Davis said. “I remember asking my mom, ‘Why can’t we take them home for dinner for just one night?’”
So now Ms. Davis, along with two dozen other nursing home operators across the country, is trying something different. This year, behind two large institutional buildings on the Green Hill campus, she has opened four small Arts and Crafts-style houses for elderly residents.
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