Getting a chance at life outside a nursing home | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/22/2009
Facility's residents live independently under constant watch.
By Stacey Burling
Inquirer Staff Writer
Charles Marriott, who is 73 and has emphysema, says he wound up in a nursing home after a drug problem got the better of the relative who was caring for him.
He hated the 15 months he spent there and gladly grabbed a chance to move into an apartment of his own.
So it doesn't bother him a bit that the place he's lived in since Jan. 14, New Courtland Square in Germantown, uses machines to monitor practically every move he makes - all in the interest of making sure he's safe….
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