Photo: #The cover of "It Shouldn't Be This Way: The Failure of Long-Term Care," by Robert Kane and Joan West.

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A personal look at long-term care

Broadcast: Midmorning, 02/27/2006, 10:06 a.m.

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A rebroadcast of Kerri Miller's conversation with Robert Kane. His years of studying policy affecting the elderly did not prepare him for the trauma of putting his own mother in a nursing home.

First aired July 22, 2005.

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  • Robert L. Kane, M.D.: Co-author, with Joan West, of "It Shouldn't Be This Way: The Failure of Long Term Care." He's the Minnesota chair of long term health and aging at the U's School of Public Health. He's also the founder of the national organization, Professionals with Personal Experience with Chronic Care.

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