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Discharge appeals for the elderly prove difficult and must be filed quickly
The old man slept peacefully while his daughter sat by her hospital bed. Suddenly, an assistant came in and announced that a move was imminent. “Your time here is up,” Bonnie Miller Rubin remembers the help explaining. “He’s going to a nursing home.” It was 9 p.m. and Rubin’s 91-year-old father had been asleep for …