Table 4. Quotes Describing Other Aspects of the Transition Process.

Sub-Theme	Example Respondent Quotations
Help from Family/Friends	Well, my daughter took care of a lot of those things for me. I think they were very helpful to her because my daughter will ask a lot of questions and she can be pretty feisty and aggressive at getting the information that she wants. (patient, Northwest) And my son, is like my guardian angel I guess you'd say. And so he decided that he was going to check into places with a person that was there at the hospital. And this was one of the places that had one opening. And so he kind of checked into a lil' bit and decided that it would be a good place. (patient, Northwest) No, they [family] chose it for me and I was glad. (patient, Northeast)
Willingness to Travel Further	I would go anywhere if I thought they could help cure me or help facilitate my rehab. (patient, Midwest) Oh, yes! I want to go to the best of the best. (patient, South) I would do anything that would be better for me and better for my family. My daughters, they drive, they can either drive here or they can drive there. (patient, Midwest) If it would meet my needs better than the facility that I'm in, yes, I would. (patient, Northeast)
Feelings About the Process	It would have been nice to, I like to know everything ahead of time. But it's impossible. And I don't know what they could've told me that—there's some things you just have to go through to understand them….I tell you, you feel like you're on your own in most of these situations, I mean, I've never been faced with it before. Never thought about it, because she [the patient] was healthy as a horse. And then when I was put into the situation of making the decisions, and then for somebody to come up and say, well, ‘It could be tomorrow, you gotta go.’ Where do we go, you know? Oh, I got on meds at that time, to be able to handle all this. (family member, South) Well, other than not really being prepared it was, it was kind of a rush thing and a new experience, I don't know how you can really prepare you know to go from hospital to a nursing facility. (patient, Northeast) I think it was probably a month ago, I was having a meltdown. I thought, are they gonna put her out in the back? You know, I thought we were out of Medicare. I had no idea! So I just told my son, I said, I can't handle it. You're gonna have to go up and talk to somebody…I didn't know who to talk to, you know? Do you talk to Medicare? Do you talk to the social work people? And I wasn't getting anywhere. So he came up and settled me down, got me back in. You know, I think everybody needs to go through this process to know what us caregivers are going through, because it's crazy. Crazy. (family member, Midwest)