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During the past couple of years, most long-term care communities have undergone a shift in culture to move away from an institutional approach to senior care to a more personal approach. This transfor...

I ran across an interesting story over the weekend. It actually was a follow-up to an article that had appeared in The Free Lance-Star, a newspaper in Fredericksburg, Va. Written by the newspaper's health reporter, the article told of an unfortunate side effect of a restriction on visitors that apparently was put into effect at a number of hospitals in the state.