With Faces to the Evening Sun: Faith Stories from the Nursing Home

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Summary: Uplifting meditations for sharing in a nursing home
Review: I am a minister who leads worship services at several nursing homes. I always search for ways to bring courage, comfort, and joy to the people who struggle to find hope while living there. This book glows with wise and inspiring meditations on numberous joys and struggles of living in a nursing home. It will serve as food for my messages for many months to come. These stories and reflections focus on the powerful issues facing people in the nursing home, and offer both wisdom and encouragement as the best of stories can do.

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Summary: Stories that would be lost without this excellent book.
Review: I am interested in stories of older persons who languish in nursing homes. Morgan's book tells these stories of older persons that would never see the light of day if he hadn't recorded them. We lose a library when an older person dies and their stories die with them. These FAITH STORIES FROM THE NURSING HOME preserve incredible stories of people who live outside the city walls, and often are perceived as lepers. It needs to be read by anyone interested in human beings.

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Summary: A Book for Unappreciated Nursing Assistants
Review: I have served as a chaplain in a Nursing Home and the unheralded heroes/heroines are the nursing assistants. Grossly unpaid, usually unappreciated, they do the "dirty" work that others avoid. Morgan's book is one I recommend to CNAs, so they can realize the value of their work as a ministry, not just a job. Many have told me that it helped affirm them, create a feeling of value in what they do, and make them feel more appreciated. For that reason it is a book caregivers need to have.

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Summary: A Book for Unappreciated Nursing Assistants
Review: I have served as a chaplain in a Nursing Home and the unheralded heroes/heroines are the nursing assistants. Grossly unpaid, usually unappreciated, they do the "dirty" work that others avoid. Morgan's book is one I recommend to CNAs, so they can realize the value of their work as a ministry, not just a job. Many have told me that it helped affirm them, create a feeling of value in what they do, and make them feel more appreciated. For that reason it is a book caregivers need to have.

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Summary: Book to Share with Family Members of Nursing Home Residents
Review: I work with nursing home residents and often find myself trying to explain our work to family members. They don't seem to understand that good things happen here, as well as some of the bad things. Morgan's book shows the flip side of nursing homes....that it is a place of joy and courage, as well as a place of pain and suffering. I recommend this book to family members so they can get a better picture of what we do for this growing population of older people.

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Summary: A much needed antidote for bashing Nursing Homes
Review: So many people either bash nursing homes because of alleged horror stories of abuse of residents, or avoid them like the plague. I love this book because it shows the humanity of people who live there, and those who help them make this their HOME

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Summary: A book that presents a positive view of the nursing home
Review: Stories of heroism, faith, and hunorare found which show that nursing homesare not just places where people go to die,but places of life and joy.Read it fora new vision of the later years.

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Summary: a book for everyone whose life is touched by a nursing home
Review: This book offers a positive view of lifein a nursing home; needs to be read byresidents [book in LARGE PRINT],families,clergy and caregivers. Faith stories showowccourage and heroism of residents.

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Summary: A book I recommend to all nursing homes residents and staff
Review: Too often people view nursing homes as doom andgloom, but this surprising book presents a morepositive picture of heroism, faith and humor in nursing homes. For residents a must, but alsofor caregivers to realize that their "work"is also a ministry.