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Eden Alternative

- Some 1.5 million elderly Americans live in nursing homes, where they receive medical and custodial care but are often denied the warmth and personal contact associated with a real home. Thomas Lalley of member station WAMC in Albany reports on a new kind of elderly care in New York state that could revolutionize the country's nursing homes.

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