Word: caring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis has been emphasizing such issues as the inability of many young couples to afford a home or reliable child care, even on two paychecks. And he is getting a friendly response from many people in the Central Valley who, like the middle class all over the country, are feeling squeezed. Michael Archer, 42, drives a scrap truck for a rendering plant, while his wife Janie works as a waitress in a coffee shop. Their three children, two boys and a girl in their 20s, are all married with children and all working at dead-end jobs: grocery clerk, bartender...
...patients. "She simply wouldn't allow an AIDS patient to breathe on St. Christopher's," says one observer. Her views have changed, but she still insists that any AIDS patients admitted must also be suffering from cancer. In fact, one such patient was admitted to the hospice's home-care program. Says Saunders: "Hospice didn't set out to look after everyone in the world who was dying of everything...
...Visitors, even small children, are admitted at all hours. Dogs stroll around, visiting their sick owners. Some patients sip whiskey with their visitors. "It's like a five-star hotel," says an elderly patient. More, perhaps, it is a throwback to the early days of the century, when care from birth to death was normally delivered at home. As Matron Duffield observes, "A hospital would insist on a strict diet for a dying diabetic patient. We serve chocolate cake." Saunders calls it creating an ambience of safety. "We make it possible to face the unsafety of death...
...healthy seropositives." These are people whose blood indicates infection with the AIDS virus but who have not developed the debilitating disease that has now attacked 71,171 nationwide. His situation places him among a growing group of Americans who often have difficulty finding work, housing and even medical care solely because of their test results. Reports abound of individuals who have been forced to resign from jobs, threatened with loss of a lease, or rejected for health or life insurance...
...gave up the chance to go to college to work at the nearby Silver Threads Nursing Home, where she remains a geriatric nursing assistant. He, quietly frustrated by knowing all there is to know about cutting 45 degrees angles in strips of wood, plays solitaire for relief. Maggie, the care giver, has found her niche propping the pillows and emptying the bedpans of the elderly. She is never bored...