Word: frailness
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...Ready is an album by musicians who have reached the pinnacles of commerical success but remain unsatisfied, making a second attempt at conquering the pop landscape two decades later. And with almost every song single-worthy, don’t expect them to disappear too quickly, especially considering the frail competition that fills the airwaves. On the album’s final track, an acoustic ballad with country influences markedly uncharacteristic of New Order, Sumner sings, “I’m going live till I die, I’m going to live to get high...
Even now constitutional issues are cropping up. Gerald H. Goldstein, counsel to Albader Al-Hazmi, a material witness said to be detained incommunicado for six days until he was allowed to see a lawyer, observed to The Post, “This is a good lesson about how frail our processes are... It’s how we treat people in difficult times like these that is the true test of the democracy and civil liberties that we brag so much about throughout the world...
...wrong with assisted-living centers [TIME IN DEPTH, Aug. 13]. I have dealt with one of the companies mentioned for more than two years. I strongly believe that assisted living needs to be regulated. I would like to see a paradigm shift in the way we think about our frail elderly. They should not be depicted as "just too sick or too needy." They have the right to live the remainder of their lives in a comfortable and dignified way. JUDITH A. KIERNAN Medford...
...survive, some facilities are taking in or holding on to sicker residents and increasing the fees they charge to serve them. Sunrise Assisted Living, one of the few companies whose stock price has remained steady, told its investors it is now marketing to "the frailest of the frail." This is welcome news for many residents and their families who believe that the ability to "age in place" is a blessing, even if their care needs are changing. Carrie Cyphert, 89, who suffers from advanced Alzheimer's disease, has been in an Alterra memory-care facility in Portage, Mich., since September...
...effervescent central-casting type. But Neil isn’t Carey, and his job is hardly romantic. I have seen the president’s Oldsmobuick in Harvard Yard waiting for its cargo to finish up in his computer-less office. It is as if the president is too frail to walk to Mass Ave. without a gasoline-powered sedan chair. The president’s sedan has vanity plates that read...