Dying for Dollars

"She just got stronger and stronger and after three weeks was feeding herself," says Ruth Lang.

The new nursing home took her off the psychotropic medicine Dill had been taking at Cedars, and Ruth says her grandmother's whole personality changed. While she has lost the ability to walk--in part because of her care at Cedars, says her family--at 88, Dill is once again the affectionate woman her granddaughter remembers.

"She is doing much better," says Ruth Lang. "She's started to smile and is like her old self again.