Empowering the Elderly Nursing Home Resident: The Resident Rights Campaign

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Empowering the Elderly Nursing Home Resident: The Resident Rights Campaign Get access Cathy Jay McDermott Cathy Jay McDermott Cathy Jay McDermott, MSW, is Director of Social Service, Cambridge Nursing Home, 1 Russell Street, Cambridge, MA 02140. An earlier version of this article was presented at a conference of the Massachusetts State Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers at Boston College, June 1987. This article is dedicated to the memory of K. Enwright, resident of Cambridge Nursing Home from 1980 to 1987. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 34, Issue 2, March 1989, Pages 155–157, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/34.2.155 Published: 01 March 1989 Article history Accepted: 08 December 1988 Published: 01 March 1989