You have the advantage of the same alphabet and a mile long list of cognates. What this means is you effectively start learning Spanish with a vocabulary of almost 1000 words without even trying. When you find words that are the same in both languages they are referred to English-Spanish cognates. The proper definition of cognate is reserved for words that exists in two different languages and have the same root or origin.
Nursing costs, which include nursing salaries and supplies, accounted for over 40. percent of total nursing home costs among the states examined (see Table 3.2). Nursing costs in Minnesota nursing homes averaged $39.13 per day, and were be-. tween 8 percent and 37 percent more than neighboring states.
âIt does, on the face of it, seem very expensive,â said Todd Bergstrom, a research director at Care Providers of Minnesota, a trade group of elder care facilities. According to him, the average nursing home cost is about $170 a day in Minnesota. âThatâs about $62,000 a year,â he said, For $170 a day, thatâs about $7 an hour of around-the-clock care for the frailest of the elderly, he added.