Word: dayroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About 70 miles east of Pittsburgh, Laurel Highlands is a prison and a nursing home rolled into one for people like Bedarka. For the sickest of the sick, there is the 85-bed long-term-care unit, staffed by 48 nurses around the clock. In a dayroom, half a dozen elderly men gaze at an ancient TV, mesmerized by Judge Judy. Amputees pushing manually operated wheelchairs queue up at the medication counter, where a cheery nurse dispenses pills for diabetes, heart disease and stroke. Nearby, a delusional man rants that State Road 31 is a barrier protecting him from...
...direct-supervision model is to normalize the environment, space is reserved for recreation, specialty-group meetings such as Alcoholics Anonymous or drug-therapy sessions, and religious functions. Says Rufo: "We have to let people have time to study, pray and let off steam, which is why the dayroom is valuable...
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