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Frau Hofer

Mrs. Hofer would have wanted to be informed about her husband’s pneumonia by the nursing home even so she was taking time off from caring.

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Mrs. Hofer would have wanted to have been informed about her husband’s pneumonia by the nursing home even so she was taking time off from caring. Since she was not told, she feels she was denied the opportunity to make the decision to interrupt the leave and return to caring for her husband.

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Mrs. Hofer would have wanted to be informed about her husband’s pneumonia by the nursing home even so she was taking time off from caring.

H: Und ich hatte eigentlich nur einmal so eine Auszeit, wirklich. [Pause] Und das war für mich dann auch nicht einfach, ich habe dann oft angerufen, wie geht es, oder. Dort haben sie mir nie gesagt, wie es geht. Ja, ja, es geht, ja, ja, es geht. Dass er eine Lungenentzündung hat, das [lächelnd] hm, hm, hm.

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