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Long-Term Care Improvement Guide 

Developed by Planetree, in collaboration with Picker Institue, Inc.

 

Patient-Centered Care Improvement Guide

Developed by Planetree, in collaboration with Picker Institue, Inc.

 

Josie’s Story: A Mother’s Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe

By Sorrel King

My Stroke of Insight:
A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey

 

By Jill B. Taylor, PhD

 

What Are Old People For?: How Elders Will Save the World

By William H. Thomas, MD

 

Forget Memory: Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia

By Anne Davis Basting

 

 

Through the Patient’s Eyes: Understanding and Promoting Patient-Centered Care

By Margaret Gertes, Susan Edgman-Levitan, Jennifer Daley, and Thomas L. Delbanco

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

By Atul Gawande, MD, MPH

Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science

By Atul Gawande, MD, MPH

Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance

By Atul Gawande, MD, MPH

 

The Waiting Room Reader

from the editors of CavanKerry Press

The Florence Prescription: From Accountability to Ownership

By Joe Tye with Dick Schwab

 

The Healing Tree: A Mermaid, A Poet, and A Miracle

By Joe Tye

 

We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders

By Pamela Spiro Wagner

 

Body of Diminishing Motion

By Joan Seliger Sidney

 

 

 

Letters From A Distant Shore

By Marie Lawson Fiala

 

Surviving has Made Me Crazy

By Mark Nepo

Putting Patients First: Best Practices in Patient-Centered Care

By Susan B. Frampton and Patrick Charmel

Meeting The Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care: What You Do Matters

By David Farrell, Cathie Brady, and Barbara Frank