Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

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.

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one.

I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.

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

I definitely wanna open up some assisted-living facilities around my city.

I want to take my rapper money and start my own assisted living facilities in Houston because I see what it looks like when you got your grandparents take care of your great-grandparents.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.

We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care.

We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care.

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.

Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.

I grew up in a retirement community in Florida.

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch.

I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.

Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

Nearly every American will encounter the need for long-term care.

With the right care at the right time, a huge number of people could stay independent much longer, with a higher quality of life.

I don't want to hang around in a wheelchair in a nursing home. I don't. I don't want to be like that.

Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.

... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.--There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass.