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Services for Long-Term Care Written Assignment #1 As We Are Now by Bobbie Coster February 20, 2004 As We Are Now May Sarton's novel, As We Are Now, tells the story of 76 year old Caroline (Caro) Spencer who has been placed in a nursing home by her family to live. However, Caro feels she has been dumped, abandoned, and left to die in what she refers to as a "concentration camp for the old.1" To pass time and retain sanity, Caro begins recording her past and present experiences in a journal. It is her hope that this so-called "Book of the Dead" will help prepare her for her death.1 Caroline's journal helps us to see why long-term care is so heavily regulated today. Many administrators would agree that state and federal regulations have, in some areas, reached and even exceed their maximum utility. However, after reading of the poor quality of care and life Caro experienced at...

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