The world of elder care and assisted living can be exhausting and demoralizing. How does a daughter insure that the needs of her declining parents are met? How does she accept the deficits in a system of health care that sometimes does not care? Marcy Baskin learned first hand how ill prepared we are to advocate for our elders, especially when they are suffering from Alzheimers. She set out to learn all she could and, in the process, found a new calling. Trained in elder care, she wrote the book Assisted Living: Questions I Wish I Had Asked and now advocates for others experiencing what she
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