Nursing Homes: A Blessing or a Curse Nursing Homes: A Blessing or a Curse. Thomas A. Routh. Charles C Thomas, Springfield, I11., 1968, 128 pp., $6.75. Jerome Kaplan, PhD Jerome Kaplan, PhD Ohio State University, And Mansfield Memorial HomesMansfield, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Gerontology, Volume 24, Issue 2, April 1969, Pages 220–221, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronj/24.2.220 Published: 01 April 1969