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...growing group of professionals known as geriatric-care managers (GCMs). They assess an elderly person's health condition and living situation, arrange and monitor in-home help, aid with placements in nursing homes or assisted-living facilities and serve as a liaison to family members, says Erica Karp, secretary of the 1,600-member National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers and owner of an agency in this practice area. GCMs, who typically have backgrounds in social work, gerontology and nursing, charge $50 to $150 an hour...
Whether for love of art or of money, book publisher Random House has decided to revive the Godfather saga. The problem is, the novel's author, Mario Puzo, died in 1999. To get around that, Random House senior editor Jonathan Karp, who worked with Puzo at the end of his life, sent an e-mail to literary agents to seek an author who is at roughly the same career point that Puzo was when he wrote the novel in 1969. There may not be too many writers eager to confess to that. Puzo said he wrote the story...
...book, this L.A. pediatrician says the problem may be too much quiet. By re-creating the biological ruckus of the mother's womb, including constant movement and the swooshing sound of blood flow, you can set off any baby's "calming reflex." Follow the "five S's," says Karp: 1) Swaddle the baby (using Karp's special tight technique); 2) place the baby on his side or stomach; 3) shush him loudly; 4) swing or bounce him rhythmically; and 5) give him something to suck on. Even dads can do it. --By Sora Song
Frank McCourt, a local developer, is one of the most desirable candidates for ownership. The group headed by Boston Concessions owner Joseph O’Donnell and developer Steve Karp would also be an excellent choice to head the Red Sox franchise...
...Marshall Karp: Actually it was during the writer's strike of 1988, when we couldn't write for money. So I could write for love and passion. I hadn't really written a feature that I would show to anybody. I'd written a lot of television. The idea comes from character, and remembering what it was like to be that age and how different it is nowadays. I thought there might be something interesting in a kind of timeless story about a boy who is discovering his sexuality in a time when once you discover it, what...