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Fiercely independent, 90 year-old Vincenzia Rinaldi wouldn’t consider a home health aide or nursing home. So Louis Critelli, her nephew had to coax the widowed homemaker into assisted living, the nation’s growing long-term care option for the elderly. For $1, 100 a month, Rinaldi became the reluctant resident of an efficiency unit where she could still simmer her much-loved tomato sauce and where caregivers would make sure she took her pills.
Instead, 30 months later, she died. Not because she was old. But because aides at her new home, Loretto Utica Center, one of the modern, hotel-style facilities that have sprouted across the country over the past decade, mistakenly gave her another resident’s prescription medication. That error led to her death, state inspectors concluded.
Neither the state nor Loretto told her nephew about the cause of death. Critelli, thinking his aunt had been properly eared for, only learned of the f
A. nursing home industry will ultimately disappear from the society.
B. 24 hour skilled medical care will come into being in the near future.
C. assisted living is the first choice for many seniors with a good income.
D. serious problems have always accompanied the assisted living units.
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After their 20-year-old son hanged himself during his winter break from the University of Arizona five years ago, Donna and Phil Satow wondered what signs they had overlooked, and started asking other students for answers.
What grew from this soul searching was Ulifeline (www. ulifeline, org), a website where students can get answers to questions about depression by logging on through their universities. The site has been adopted as a resource by over 120 colleges, which can customize it with local information, and over 1.3 million students have logged on with their college ID’s.
"It’s a very, solid website that raises awareness of suicide, de-stigmatizes mental illness and encourages people to seek the help they need," said Paul Grayson, the director of counseling services at New York University, which started using the service nearly a year ago.
The main component of the website is the Self-E-Valuator, a self-s
A. only actual therapy can ensure adequate treatment
B. the help given by the web service is doubtful
C. doctors have expressed a negative view of the service
D. a therapist's office is the first place for the depressed to go
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Yasuhisa Shizoki, a SI-year-old MP from Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), starts tapping his finger on the dismal economic chart on his coffee table. "Unless we change the decision-making process," he says bluntly, "we are not going to be able to solve this kind of problem." With the economy in such a mess, it may seem a bit of a diversion to be trying to sort out Japan’s political structures as well as its economic problems.
Since co-writing a report on political reform, which was released by an LDP panel last week, Mr. Shizoki has further upset the party’s old guard. Its legionaries, flanked by columns of the bureaucracy, continue to hamper most attempts to overhaul the economy. Junichiro Koizumi was supposed to change all that, by going over their heads and appealing directly to the public. Yet nearly a year after becoming prime minister, Mr. Koizumi has precious little to show for his efforts. Hi
A. LDP bodies' accountability.
B. the prime minister.
C. advocates of economic reforms.
D. the LDP machinery.
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