Nursing Home Quotes:

Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.

- David Mixner

source: "Millions of Lives Will Be Changed By Home Health Care Cuts" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2010.

topic: Home, Nursing, People, Residence, Nursing Home

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

- Steven Wright

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Children, Nice, Home, Nursing Home

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Home, Nursing, Half, Nursing Home

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

- Atom Egoyan

topic: Home, Son, Nursing, Nursing Home

I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.

- Misty Upham

topic: Lonely, Home, Nursing, Hospice, Nursing Home

Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.

- Ernest Hollings

topic: Home, Nursing, Said, Senate, Nursing Home

At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.

- John D. MacDonald

topic: Relationship, Commitment, Home, No Commitment, Nursing Home

The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

- Ed Rendell

topic: Home, Nursing, People, Medicaid, Nursing Home

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

- Rickie Lee Jones

topic: Jobs, Home, Nursing, Nursing Home

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

- Alice Munro

topic: Children, Home, Writing, Nursing Home, Visits You

Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you.

- T. D. Jakes

topic: Divorce, Home, Nursing, Nursing Home

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home.

- Dennis Miller

topic: Inspirational, Children, Home, Nursing Home

It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff.

- Rick Renzi

topic: Home, Nursing, Order, Nursing Home

Being a Daddy is priority number one. When you are old and facing oblivion in a nursing home or a hospital or on a golf course in winter, you are not going to wish you had spent more time at the office or making a sales call or watching a show. You will wish you had spent more time with your family.

- Ben Stein

source: Ben Stein (1998). “Tommy & Me: The Making of a Dad”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Home, Nursing, Golf, Wish You, Nursing Home

My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.

- Kim Edwards

topic: Lonely, Strong, Jobs, Old Houses, Lonely People

Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.

- William Braxton Irvine

source: William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.2, Oxford University Press

topic: Girl, Running, Baby, Math Problems, Reason To Live

Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured away, your life winnowed down to a few items on the table and some pictures of people who don't come around enough. When you are about to pass on, there is no quiet to attend you: busy fuss and professional zeal strive to bring you back, nail you to the soft cross of the rented bed.

- James Lileks

topic: Death, Home, Nursing, Nursing Home

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

- John Cage

source: John Cage (2010). “M: Writings ’67–’72”, p.22, Wesleyan University Press

topic: Home, School, Nursing, Nursery School, Nursing Home

These are folks that keep people out of hospitals, out of emergency rooms, out of nursing homes. And not only that, they help people achieve more fulfilling lives.

- Atul Gawande

source: "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

topic: Home, Nursing, People, Fulfilling Life, Emergency Room

I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.

- LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

source: "First Lady LisaRaye McCoy-Misick: 'I'm Going to Get Through This'". Essence Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

topic: Girl, Father, Home, Nursing Home

If America does not wish to end her days in the same nursing home as Britannia she had best end this geo-babble about new world orders. Our war, the Cold War, is over. It is time for America to come home.

- Pat Buchanan

topic: War, Home, Nursing, Nursing Home

In my very first term there was an issue that brought us [George Mitchell, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd] together in a very deep, emotional, and personal level.It was called 'spousal impoverishment' and it meant that for one person [to go into] a nursing home, the family [ ], could go near bankruptcy, and then they'd end up with a lien on the family farm or the home. And so I wanted to change that.

- Barbara Mikulski

source: Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

topic: Home, Nursing, Emotional, Ted Kennedy, Deep Emotional

Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we failed to learn lessons which Ancient China, Greece and Rome learned too late - about day care and death houses for old folks? Do we without protest accept accelerating preschool and nursing home cultures which warn ominously that the earlier you institutionalize your child, the earlier he will institutionalize you!

- Raymond S. Moore

topic: Children, Home, School, Learning Lessons, Family Ties

I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.

- Barbara Brown Taylor

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Home, Nursing, People, Nursing Home

Entitlements is not sic the issue. And if so, cool heads can sit down and engage the American people and tell us how many seniors in nursing homes do we want to throw out in the street? ... And then who wants to make a fuss about Medicare when it's solvent until 2024? ... Who wants to make a fuss about Social Security when it's solvent - and it's about, 'You earned it'?

- Sheila Jackson Lee

topic: Senior, Home, Nursing, Nursing Home

Humans are born, small, weak and helpless. That's why we have family. And the elders of the family are the honoured guardians of our country's history. Unfortunately, in America, we, you know, lock those elders away out of view in nursing homes and go about our little lives. It's a great national shame and an irredeemable tragedy. Oh well.

- Christopher Titus

source: "Grandma Titus". "Titus" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2002.

topic: Country, Home, Nursing, Elders, Nursing Home

I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.

- Christina Applegate

source: "Good Morning America" Interview, August 19, 2008.

topic: Cute, Home, Nursing, Nursing Home

Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?

- Betty Friedan

topic: Home, Nursing, Acceptance, Nursing Home

Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.

- Michael C. Burgess

topic: Home, Nursing, Past, Long Term Care, Family Members

I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.

- Debby Ryan

topic: Home, School, Nursing, Nursery School, Nursing Home

Ignore him," Heather begged. "I do. Constantly." Jean-Luc studied the coach, then turned to Heather with a wary look. "Every man in this town wants you." She laughed. "Yea, right. The old guys from the nursing home go into cardiac arrest whenever I walk by." His gaze drifted over her. "I can believe that.

- Kerrelyn Sparks

topic: Believe, Home, Nursing, Old Guys, Cardiac

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

- Douglas Preston

topic: Jobs, Hard Work, Home, Washing Dishes, Value Of Hard Work

Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.

- Steven Levitt

topic: Mother, Mean, Kids, Nursing Home

I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a larger community. I out-grew my uniforms and badges years ago, but the memories of visiting nursing homes or organizing Earth Day tree plantings or my summers camping with girls from all different backgrounds will stay with me always.

- Natalie Merchant

source: "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

topic: Girl, Summer, Memories, Being A Girl, Girl Scout

By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.

- Robert Kuttner

source: "The Economic Illusion". Book by Robert Kuttner, 1984.

topic: Home, Nursing, Class, Billing, Medicaid

The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.

- Jake Shimabukuro

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Senior, Hipster, Home, Hawaiians, Hula

They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day.

- Erykah Badu

source: "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

topic: Home, Nursing, Elderly, Nursing Home

They say 'life is precious'. To who? To you, when you're young and you've got a few dollars in your pocket. Tell that to the 90-year-old lying awake at the graveyard shift in the nursing home, groaning with dementia. The only reason he hasn't killed himself is that he hasn't figured out a way he can do it with pudding.

- Doug Stanhope

topic: Lying, Home, Nursing, Dementia, Nursing Home

Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in the last moments, when you're chocking on your own bile in the nursing home, you'll say to yourself:'Well, I wasted my whole goddamned life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman my senior year of high school. At least I carpe'd that one diem.

- John Green

topic: Senior, Baby, Home, Margo Roth Spiegelman, Senior Year

My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.

- Erykah Badu

source: "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

topic: Home, Nursing, Passing On, Doulas, Hospice

I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring about good, even if there is an element of selfishness involved. Like the kids at my school might join the Key Club or Future Buisness Leaders of America, because it's a social thing and looks good on their record, not because they really want to volunteer at the nursing home. But the people at the nursing home still benefit from it, so it's better that the kids do it than not do it. And if they never did it, then they wouldn't find out that they actually liked it.

- Wendy Mass

source: Wendy Mass (2011). “13 Gifts”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

topic: School, Kids, Home, Buisness, Nursing Home

Charley talking to Cookie ‘'You know those women in nursing homes that have to be restrained around the clock because they mix up everyones medication and steal all the bedpans?'' ‘’Yes'' I said wondering what I was walking into ''That’s going to be you!'' She was probably right, if I live that long

- Darynda Jones

topic: Home, Nursing, Talking, Nursing Home

We wandered the halls of an infinite magic nursing home, led by a hippo nurse with a torch. Really, just an ordinary night for the Kanes.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Home, Nursing, Night, Nursing Home

And isn't that weird? Think about this, when you're born, you nurse on your mama. And then you get a little older, you go to applesauce. And then you see these toddlers walking around with these Ziploc baggies full of Cheerios. Then you get to be my age, and the doctor wants you to start eating Cheerios to watch your cholesterol. Then you lose your teeth, you go to applesauce. I now know why old men like women with really big boobs. They see a trend. I mean, they call it a nursing home, hello.

- Bill Engvall

topic: Mean, Home, Nursing, Cholesterol, Applesauce