About the Author

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Marilyn Rantz, RN, PhD and Mary Zwygart-Stauffacher, RN, PhD each have more than two decades of experience researching and improving American eldercare. They are two-time winners of the American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year Award. Marilyn Rantz lives in Columbia, Missouri; Mary Zwygart-Stauffacher lives in Colfax, Wisconsin.