January 1, 2011
Long Term Living
LTC's 10 most influential people
By Richard L. Peck
While not associated solely with long-term care, and only tangentially with nursing home care, Dr. Butler nevertheless “set the table” for everything that has happened in the field in recent decades. A noted geriatrician starting in the 1970s, when the term “geriatrician” was new, Dr. Butler published the 1976 Pulitzer Prize-winning Why Survive? Being Old in America-a breakthrough moment. For the first time Americans were urged to think seriously about aging and all its personal and social implications....
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