Recipe for Home

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Recipe for Home

• Defining and Creating Home
• in
• Long-Term Care Facilities

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JoAnne Coverdale

• Home is a place where you are content and you
  have your own clean space.
• It is also important to be able to do what you
  want with your space.
• Home is a place that you can spend time with your
  family and visitors.
• It is a place that you can choose where to spend
  your time and eat you meals.
• Home is feeling free to do what you want.

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Olive Miller

• Home is a place where there is unity.
• It is a place where you treat others like family,
  the way you want to be treated.
• It is a place where when we are down in the
  dumps, our spirit can be lifted.
• Home is a place where you can get together with
  others and spend time doing things in enjoy each
  others company.

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Ms. Sidle

• Home is a place where you can be with loved ones.
  
• It is a place that you can go about and do what
  you want. Being able to go and see plays and
  movies.

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Natalie Neemen

• A home is some place quiet with privacy, where I
  am able to do as I please.
• A home is a place that is my own secure little
  haven.

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Mr. Nelson

• Home is a quiet place with a radio and a
  television.
• It is a place where no one bothers you.

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Nancy Keifer

• My home is where I use to live. I had a trailer
  in a trailer park as my home.
• It is a place where you are happy.
• Home is a place where I can be with my children.

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Francis Passwaters

• Home means happiness.
• It is a place that makes you happy.

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Jane Ewell

• Home is a place where I feel comfortable.
• It is a place where there is family and home
  cooked meal.

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Virginia Wooten

• When I think of home, I think of my mother.
• I think of our family dinners and home cooking.
• My husband and I had a nice home.

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Bill Attix

• Home is a place to go and stay.
• My home is a farm in Cheswold.

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Sylvia Broderick

• Home is in Liberia.
• But all of my children are here in America now
  with me.

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Jane Campbell

• Not here, but somewhere else with a kitchen,
  living room, and bathroom.
• I had an apartment with those things.

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Arlene Gordon

• Home is a family with a father, a mother, and
  children.
• A home should always be neat and tidy.
• Where a mother and her daughter cook good food
  together and at the end of the work day the
  family sits and talks together.

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Alice VanDyke

• Home is where family members spend time together.
  
• My husband and I had a favorite pond where we
  would often take our children swimming.

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Edna Hoffner

• I lived at home with my Mom and my three sisters.
  
• My mother taught us how to be responsible and
  independent so that when I graduated I was able
  to go out and work.

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Ruby Grasso

• Home means everything to me.
• My parents were wonderful role models.
• As an adult I patterned my home after my parents
  with mom in the kitchen and dad and my brother
  working with the horses on the farm.
• It was a really good life. Mom and Dad used to
  sit on the porch in their rocking chairs. They
  were good, Christian, church-going people that
  brought us up right.

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Rose Young

• I have two grandkids and to me home is wherever
  they are.
• My husband is my sidekick.
• We see them and talk with them everyday.
• They always make me smile!

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Chris Farlow

• Home means warmth!
• My home was in the farm belt where I raised
  donkeys and beef.
• My favorite memory is sleigh riding in the snow
  as a kid in New York.

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Alfred Drummond

• When I think of home, I think of my childhood.

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Ray Spillers

• My home was a three room apartment. Someone came
  in and cooked me breakfast and cleaned up the
  apartment.
• I liked it there. I had meals brought in. My son
  would visit me and bring extra food. I was
  getting along pretty good there.

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Mr. Devine

• Home to me is my own home.
• It was wonderful.
• It felt very comfortable there.
• My in-laws were there and they helped us take
  care of things.

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Francis Caldwell

• Home is the place where you want to be.

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The Rights of a ResidentbyJim MacFarland

• Scissors to Open Condiment Packs
• Coffee strong enough to need sugar and hot enough
  to need to wait for.
• Food with Flavor if no added Salt
• Covered food where the flavor doesn't stick to
  the cover.
• Food that avoids or prevents gastric distress.

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The Rights of a ResidentJim MacFarland cont.

• The Right to Pizza, Pasta, Pepsi and Alka
  Seltzer.
• Ham and Cheese instead of Peanut Butter.
• Continuity of care
• To Smile and be smiled at.
• Two hot dogs
• Sufficient light to read or eat by.

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The Rights of a ResidentJim MacFarland cont.

• Happiness is
• - A good joke.
• -A warm blanket.
• -A cold beer.
• -A bowl of tomato soup with Grilled Cheese.
• -A breath of fresh air.
• -A warm smile.
• -A home run
• -A dry sock
• -A warm puppy (thanks Chuck)

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A Poem from Manor Care of Pike Creek

• Home
• A building of many stories that transcends
• my memories filled with children, parents
• and love gifted from God above.
• Comfort, security and peace we find in our
• short lives lease. Good food and Sunday
• dinners found for all the worlds saints and
• sinners.
• Laughter ringing through the halls, I can
• still hear my Mother's calls. Father's
• baritone voice that rings, our Home is where
• the angels sing!

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Lifecare at Lofland Park What Home Means to Us

• L IS FOR ALL THE LOVE THAT IS GIVEN TO US.
• C IS FOR THE CONCERN OF EVERYONE IN OUR HOME A
  WAY FROM HOME.
• L IS FOR THE LOVELY BUILDING AND ITS
  SURROUNDINGS.
• P IS FOR THE PLEASANT AND CARING STAFF WE HAVE.

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Lifecare at Lofland Park What Home Means to Us
cont.

• ADD THESE ALL TOGETHER AND MIX ONE BY
• ONE AND THIS MAKES A LOVING HOME TO
• HAVE FOREVER AND EVER.

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