--Bob Moos, Dallas Morning News, staff writer covering aging issues
"My 100-year-old mother is one of the many older people whose negative image of nursing homes made her plead with me never to put her in one. In Old Age in a New Age Beth Baker describes the 'new communities that look and feel much more like a home than a hospital both in their physical design and in the relationships that they nurture.' After my mother reads Beth Baker's well written, thoughtful and authoritative account of this revolution in older residences, it should persuade her that she will be much happier in one of these than with a caretaker and the social isolation of a center city condominium."
--Leonard Hayflick, Ph.D, Professor of Anatomy,
University of California, San Francisco
Past President of The Gerontological Society of America
Founding Member of the Council of the National Institute on Aging
"In 45 years' advocating for quality care in nursing homes, I've not seen anything more promising for fundamental change than the culture change movement. The journey through culture change and nursing home transformation is consistent with the Nursing Home Reform Law embedded in our nation's Social Security Act since 1987. This informative book illuminates the philosophy and the practicalities of culture change. It can bolster the efforts of all who seek on-going quality in long-term care."
--Elma Holder, Founder, The National Citizens' Coalition
for Nursing Home Reform
"An insightful, inspiring, well-researched book that poignantly describes the lessons of how a person centered approach and culture change is possible and should be expected in nursing homes and assisted-living communities."
--Linda Aufderhaar, Past President, National Association
of Professional Geriatric Care Managers
"Beth Baker highlights the efforts of those who are changing the paradigm of the dreaded nursing home by providing a culture of kindness to our elderly and most vulnerable citizens. A must-read for all those who dare to hope that receiving long-term care is destined to become synonymous with living a full and fulfilling life."
--Barbara Miller Greenberg,
Families For Improved Care, Columbus OH
"I heartily feasted on its content, form, and the emotional language of its message; and devoured it in three days of reading and rereading....The culture change in transformative nursing home care is happening everywhere I look, and I feel optimistic that many of these improvements will be in place by the time I need this care."
--Bobby Richman, music therapist and composer, San Francisco
"Your book is an amazing gift. In fact, I can't put it down! You have written the best book I have read yet, on this difficult and challenging subject we call long term care. I am amazed at the clarity with which you showed the problems and how you weave together the human story and keep the reader engaged. Truly, your skills as an exceptional writer and journalist have provided a book that is easy to read about a difficult and complex subject."
--(Rev. Dr.) Judith O'Neill, Claremont, California
"This book is definitely a "must read" for anyone working in or dealing with long-term care in any capacity.... Beth has done a magnificent job presenting a very complicated subject in a very readable manner."
--Kate Ricks, chair,
Voices for Quality Care, Maryland statewide family caregiver group