Looking for books set in a nursing home or assisted living

[left-of-center2012]

Not a hand book or how to book.

Something along a biography,
or a good fiction about folks living in one.

I'm currently reading "Breaking Out of Bedlam" and am enjoying it very much.

Would appreciate all suggestions.

Thanks

[redstateblues]

1. John Grisham has a good short story set in a nursing home

Quiet Haven

[left-of-center2012]

2. Ford County: Stories ?

https://www.amazon.com/Ford-County-Stories-John-Grisham/dp/0440246210

[2naSalit]

3. Oldie but goodie...

"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" Ken Kesey.

[left-of-center2012]

4. Great movie set in a mental hospital.

I'm looking more for a setting with senior citizens coping with life in a nursing home or assisted living facility,
either as a biography or maybe mystery novel.

[getting old in mke]

5. Mysteries

There was an anthology of mystery stories named something like One Foot in the Grave, but I can't find reference to it online any more, and I've resold most of our hard-copy fiction, hopefully prepping for the retirement move in a year or so.

I did find reference to Geezer-Lit: https://www.goodreads.com/series/63424-paul-jacobson-geezer-lit-mystery

And of course, it's one of the story lines in Stephen King's The Green Mile, too.

[left-of-center2012]

6. Thanks.

I’ve bookmarked the Geezer info :
https://www.goodreads.com/series/63424-paul-jacobson-geezer-lit-mystery

Isn’t “The Green Mile” more about a prison, rather than a nursing home?

I found the author Jeaniene Frost when I googled “One Foot in the Grave”,
but her stories seem to be about vampires ~
or linked to a BBC TV show series.

[getting old in mke]

7. Green Mile

Is primarily a prison story. The framing story, though, is the old man remembering back, and dealing with an abusive attendant.

[raccoon]

11. Corinne Holt Sawyer wrote a series of mysteries about two women in an

assisted living facility, Camden-sur-Mer.

They were written a few years back--1980s and 1990s--so they may be hard to find. You can probably get them on interlibrary loan if you can't find them.

[bif]

8. "Water for Elephants." Wonderful book.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. "The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 years old"

Hendryk lives in a nursing home, and an independent living unit is attached. He's in Amsterdam, isn't too crazy about old people, but finds ways to make his life good.

It's one of the best books I've ever read.

[left-of-center2012]

10. Thanks. Looks good

It gets 4 1/2 stars out of 5 on Amazon.
I'm adding it to my list.

[japple]

12. I read this one several years ago and thought it was funny.

Clyde Edgerton's Lunch at the Picadilly
https://www.amazon.com/Lunch-at-Piccadilly-Edgerton-Clyde-ebook/dp/B003VD1BLA/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1516052784&sr=8-4&keywords=clyde+edgerton

I stumbled on this series while looking up a link for Clyde Edgerton:

Kirt J. Boyd, The Last Stop (The Last Stop Retirement Community Series Book 1)
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Stop-Retirement-Community-Book-ebook/dp/B0097WRX8Y/ref=sr_1_13_sspa?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1516053082&sr=1-13-spons&keywords=clyde+edgerton&psc=1

[left-of-center2012]

13. Thanks

I've saved both links