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What is "4 cats, 2 dogs, and 100 birds"
How many animals and what kind did bill originally want to add to each floor of the nursing home
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what is "Life itself"
What did Bill Thomas say was lacking in the Nursing home that he began working at after being an ER Doctor?
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4 out of 5 residents
In the chase nursing home how many people out of 5 had Alzheimer's disease?
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What is "Betrayals of body and mind that erase our character and memories"
What does Gawande refer to as our most awful tortures? Pg. 141
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What is "maximum independence"
Bill Thomas, medical director of Chase Memorial Nursing Home, believed that a good life had how much independence?
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What is "15%"
When animals were introduced to the nursing home how far did the deaths decrease in the nursing home?
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What is "the greenhouse project"
What was bill thomas's project called the "eden alternative" later renamed too?
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What is "decreased by 50%"
By how much did the number of prescriptions decrease that the residents were taking within two years of the Nursing home transformation to adding animals?
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What is "First, living independently without limitations, and second, being the authors of our own lives"
Gawande recognizes two forms of autonomy in Chapter 5, what are they? Pg. 140.
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What is "despair and or absence of life"
When medical director Bill Thomas joined Chase Memorial Nursing Home he saw this in every room:
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What is "2 parakeets"
What animals helped Mr. L gain back his happiness in the nursing home after his wife died and he had a suicide attempt?
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What is "Boredom, loneliness, and helplessness"
What did bill consider the three plagues of nursing homes?
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Psychotropic drugs
What category of drugs were specifically reduced with the addition of animals?
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What is isolation
According to Gawande, the terror of sickness and old age is “the losses one is forced to endure” and THE TERROR OF:
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What is "Poor choices"
As they age, residents continue to live at Sanborn Place (a low income apartment complex of elderly people).
At Sanborn Place, elderly residents live like they would live in any neighborhood & elderly residents are allowed to make WHAT KIND OF CHOICES for themselves? |
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What is "an old medicine cart"
Pet therapy is seen to be very beneficial in what What equipment did they use in the nursing home to dispense food and supplies for the animals?
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What is "homes"
Thomas strives for nursing homes to feel like ________, and not like institutions, pg. 142.
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What is "80 residents"
How many residents were there at chase memorial?
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What is "Ones life"
Gawande said that the BATTLE OF BEING MORTAL IS THE BATTLE TO MAINTAIN THE INTEGRITY OF:
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What is "Spontaneity"
What do "living things" provide in place of boredom?
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What is "Alzheimer's, specifically Sundowner's Syndrome (increased agitation and confusion at nighttime)"
Pet therapy is seen to be very beneficial in what memory illness in elders?
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What is "whenever they wanted to"
Bill Thomas built GREEN HOUSES where people awaken / sleep and go to when…?
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What is "Animals, children and plants"
What are the three things bill Thomas believed would bring life into a nursing home?
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What is "more active, more alert, and longer life"
After a year and a half of taking responsibility for something such as a pet, or plant what improvements were made/seen in these residents?
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What is "companionship"
What do "living things" provide in place of loneliness?
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