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      LIFE IN A CCRC: ON NOT BEING INVISIBLE

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      Innovation in Aging
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          In Aging in the Right Place, Stephen Golant (2015) argues that CCRC residents must be able to trust the managers to treat them empathically when residents need more advanced care. True, but empathy is also necessary other times. When managers at my CCRC forced out a beloved employee for unexplained reasons, I began to resent my loss of the autonomy that I had traded for long-term care. Managers must understand, as Atul Gawande learned, (Being Mortal, 2014), that they cannot provide a supportive environment unless they make residents feel understood and respected. Surprisingly, when some of the hiring mistakes were corrected, I found that a weight had been lifted. During the turmoil, I learned that I relied on the comfort of my residential friends. Unlike some people who make elders feel invisible (Angell, 2014), fellow residents understand our dilemma. Yet the staff in CCRCs should provide emotional support as well.

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          Journal
          Innov Aging
          Innov Aging
          geroni
          Innovation in Aging
          Oxford University Press (US )
          2399-5300
          July 2017
          30 June 2017
          : 1
          : Suppl 1 , Program Abstracts from the 21st International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) World Congress
          : 86
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Program in Linguistics, University of Florida , Baltimore, Maryland
          Article
          PMC6241909 PMC6241909 6241909 igx004.355
          10.1093/geroni/igx004.355
          6241909
          96787932-a3e7-4979-b4a8-a124017e8062
          © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.
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          Pages: 1
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          Session 360 (Symposium): We are now they: Old Gerontologists Living in Age-Segregated Housing

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