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                                                                   Exhibit 10.50

                                  June 23, 2004

Dear ______________________:

     I am pleased to inform you that the Compensation/Incentive Committee of
Chemed Corporation (the "Company"), has granted you _____ shares of the
Company's Capital Stock ("Capital Stock"), par value $1.00 per share, under the
2004 Stock Incentive Plan (the "Plan"). This letter evidences the issuance or
transfer of such shares to you today and sets forth the agreement under which
such shares (hereinafter sometimes called the "Restricted Shares") are being
issued or transferred to you.

          1.   The Restricted Shares are issued or transferred to you subject to
               the following restrictions:

               (a)  As long as you are employed by the Company or a Subsidiary
                    (as defined in paragraph 9 below) and until the restrictions
                    set forth in this subparagraph (a) lapse in accordance with
                    paragraph 5, you will not, except as otherwise specifically
                    required or permitted by this Agreement, sell, exchange,
                    transfer, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise dispose of any of
                    the Restricted Shares or any interest therein.

               (b)  During your employment with the Company or a Subsidiary, you
                    will not, except as otherwise required or permitted by this
                    Agreement, sell, exchange, transfer, pledge, hypothecate or
                    otherwise dispose of any Restricted Shares, or any interest
                    therein, with respect to which the restrictions on transfer
                    herein imposed have not lapsed ("Non-vested Shares").

          2.   Upon the issuance or transfer to you of the Restricted Shares,
               you shall for all purposes be a stockholder of record of the
               Company with respect to the Restricted Shares and shall have all
               rights of a holder of Capital Stock with respect to such shares
               (including the right to vote such shares at any meeting of
               holders of Capital Stock and the right to receive all dividends
               paid with respect to such shares), subject only to the
               restrictions imposed by paragraph 1 of this Agreement. To
               evidence such restrictions and until such restrictions shall have
               lapsed, the certificates or book entry for the Restricted Shares
               shall carry a legend to the effect, in
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               form satisfactory to the Company's counsel, that they were issued
               or transferred subject to, and may be sold or otherwise disposed
               of only in accordance with, the terms of this Agreement.

          3.   Under Section 83(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, you may, within
               30 days from the date of grant of the Restricted Shares, make an
               election which would cause you to be taxed on the value of such
               Shares based on their Fair Market Value (as defined in the Plan)
               on the date of grant; otherwise, in the absence of such an
               election, you will be taxed at the times of the lapse(s) on the
               Restricted Shares, based on their Fair Market Value at the times
               of the lapse(s).

          4.   In the event that, as the result of a stock dividend, stock
               split, recapitalization, merger, consolidation, reorganization,
               or other similar event, you shall, as the owner of Restricted
               Shares, be entitled, under the provisions of the Plan or
               otherwise, to new or additional or different shares or securities
               as follows:

               (a)  such new or additional or different shares or securities
                    shall be deemed "Restricted Shares,"

               (b)  all the provisions of this Agreement relating to
                    restrictions and lapse of restrictions shall be applicable
                    thereto, and

               (c)  the certificates or other instruments or book entry
                    evidencing such new or additional or different shares or
                    securities shall bear the legend referred to in the third
                    sentence of paragraph 2. The foregoing restrictions shall
                    not apply to any fractional shares resulting from any such
                    event, or to any pre-emptive or other rights to purchase
                    securities to which you, as a holder of Restricted Shares,
                    may become entitled in connection with a public offering of
                    Capital Stock.

          5.   (a)  The restrictions set forth in paragraph 1 above on the
                    transfer of the Restricted Shares shall lapse in full on
                    December 31, 2007 subject to all the then applicable
                    provisions of this Agreement.

               (b)  If your employment with the Company or a Subsidiary shall,
                    while you hold any Non-vested Shares, terminate for any
                    reason other than death, disability, retirement under a
                    retirement plan of the Company or a Subsidiary, termination
                    without cause or change in control of the Company such

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                    Non-vested Shares shall be forfeited by you. If your
                    employment with the Company or a Subsidiary shall, while you
                    hold any Non-vested Shares, terminate by reason of death,
                    disability, retirement under a retirement plan of the
                    Company or a Subsidiary, termination without cause, or
                    change in control of the Company, the restrictions on
                    transfer applicable to such Non-vested Shares shall lapse in
                    their entirety as of the effective date of such termination
                    of employment or change in control.

               (c)  If, as and when the restrictions lapse with respect to
                    Restricted Shares pursuant to this paragraph 5, there will
                    be delivered to you, promptly upon your request,
                    certificates free of any legend for a like number of shares
                    in exchange for the certificates or cancellation of the book
                    entry for such Restricted Shares bearing the legend referred
                    to in paragraph 2 of this Agreement.

          6.   Except as otherwise expressly required or permitted by this
               Agreement, no right, benefit or interest in the Restricted Shares
               or under this Agreement shall be subject to anticipation,
               alienation, sale, assignment, encumbrance, charge, pledge or
               hypothecation.

          7.   (a)  Nothing in paragraph 1 or elsewhere in this Agreement shall
                    preclude a transfer to your legal representatives following
                    your death or a distribution to the persons provided for in
                    paragraph 7(b)(iii) or shall preclude you, upon not less
                    than thirty (30) days' advance written notice to the
                    Company, from making a gift of any Restricted Shares, or any
                    interest therein, (i) to one or more of your Immediate
                    Family Members, (ii) to a trust of which the beneficiary or
                    beneficiaries of the corpus or of the income, or both, is
                    either yourself or one or more of your Immediate Family
                    Members, or both, or (iii) to a corporation all of the stock
                    of which is owned by you or one or more of your Immediate
                    Family Members, or both. For the purpose of this provision,
                    an "Immediate Family Member" shall be deemed to be a spouse,
                    child, stepchild, grandchild, parent, brother or sister or
                    child of a brother or sister of yours, whether of the whole
                    or half blood, and whether the relationship arose by
                    adoption.

               (b)  the term "Donee," as used in this Agreement, shall be deemed
                    to mean (i) the person, or collectively, all the

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                    persons (including a trust or corporation), to whom a gift
                    permitted by paragraph 7(a) has been made by you, (ii) your
                    legal representatives following your death, and (iii) the
                    persons to whom Restricted Shares shall be distributed by
                    your legal representatives as the persons whom they believe
                    to be entitled thereto under your will, or, in case of
                    intestacy, under the laws relating to intestacy.

               (c)  In case of any gift, transfer or distribution to a Donee,
                    (i) the Restricted Shares so given, transferred or
                    distributed shall continue to be subject to all the
                    restrictions and other provisions of this Agreement, (ii)
                    the certificates for the Restricted Shares so given,
                    transferred or distributed shall bear the legend referred to
                    in paragraph 2 of this Agreement, and (iii) the Donee shall,
                    with respect to the Restricted Shares so given, transferred
                    or distributed, have all the powers and shall be required to
                    comply with all the restrictions and other provisions of
                    this Agreement requiring the taking, or refraining from
                    taking, of action to the same extent as you were immediately
                    prior to the making of such gift, transfer or distribution.

          8.   Any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, the Company may
               take such steps as it believes necessary or desirable to obtain
               sufficient funds from you to pay all taxes, if any, required by
               law to be withheld in respect of the Restricted Shares including,
               but not limited to, requiring payments to the Company by you or
               on your behalf and/or taking deductions from amounts payable by
               the Company to you or on your behalf.

          9.   As used in this Agreement, the term "Company or a Subsidiary"
               shall mean the Company, its divisions and units, and all
               corporations or other forms of business association of which
               shares (or other ownership interests) having 50% or more of the
               voting power regularly entitled to vote for directors (or
               equivalent management) or regularly entitled to receive 50% or
               more of the dividends (or their equivalents) paid on the Capital
               Stock (or its equivalent) are owned or controlled, directly or
               indirectly, by the Company.

          10.  Each of the parties hereto agrees to execute and deliver all
               consents and other instruments and to take all other action
               deemed necessary or desirable by counsel for the Company to carry
               out each term of this Agreement. Without limiting the

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               generality of the foregoing, you shall, if and when requested by
               the Company, deposit any or all certificates for the Restricted
               Shares, together with a stock power or other instrument of
               transfer appropriately executed in blank, with a bank and under a
               deposit agreement approved by the Company and, following such
               deposit, certificates for the Restricted Shares shall no longer
               carry the legend referred to in paragraph 2 of this Agreement,
               and new certificates shall be issued in place thereof, in which
               event, each of the parties agrees to give such instructions and
               to deliver or refrain from delivering such notices to the bank
               acting under such deposit agreement as may be necessary to carry
               out each term of this Agreement, to the end that all property
               deposited under such deposit agreement shall be paid,
               transferred, released or otherwise disposed of in accordance with
               the terms of this Agreement and each obligation thereunder. Each
               party recognizes that the other party has no adequate remedy at
               law for breach of this Agreement and recognizes, consents and
               agrees that the other party shall be entitled to an injunction or
               decree of specific performance directed to the other party and to
               the bank acting under any such deposit agreement requiring that
               the provisions of this Agreement be carried out.

          11.  (a)  Any notice to the Company under or pursuant to this
                    Agreement shall be deemed to have been given if and when
                    delivered in person to the Secretary of the
                    Compensation/Incentive Committee or if and when mailed by
                    certified or registered mail to the Secretary of the
                    Compensation/Incentive Committee at 2600 Chemed Center, 255
                    East Fifth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202, or such other
                    address as the Company may from time to time designate in
                    writing by notice to you given pursuant to paragraph 11(b)
                    hereof.

               (b)  Any notice to you under or pursuant to this Agreement shall
                    be deemed to have been given if and when delivered to you in
                    person or if and when mailed by certified or registered mail
                    to you at your address hereinabove given or such other
                    address as you may from time to time designate in writing by
                    notice to the Company given pursuant to paragraph 11(a)
                    above.

          12.  Notwithstanding any remedy provided for in this Agreement,
               nothing in this Agreement shall preclude the Company from taking

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               any other action or enforcing any other remedy available to the
               Company.

          13.  This Agreement has been executed pursuant to the Plan of the
               Company, and the Plan is hereby incorporated herein by reference.

          14.  This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of
               (a) the Company, its successors and assigns, and (b) you, and to
               the extent applicable, each Donee.

          15.  This Agreement has been executed, and it and the Restricted
               Shares have been or are to be delivered, in accordance with the
               laws of the State of Ohio, the state in which the Company
               maintains its principal executive offices, and the validity,
               interpretation, performance and enforcement of this Agreement
               shall be governed by the laws of the State of Ohio.

                                           Very truly yours,

                                           CHEMED CORPORATION

Executed and agreed to                     By:
as of:                                         ---------------------------------
                                               Kevin J. McNamara
                                               President and Chief Executive
----------------------------------------       Officer

Date:                                      Date:
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                                                                   EXHIBIT 10.51

                                  May 17, 2004

          In accordance with the 2004 Stock Incentive Plan (the "Plan") of
Roto-Rooter, Inc. (the "Corporation"), you are hereby granted an option to
purchase ____________ shares of the capital stock, par value $1.00 per share, of
the Corporation upon the following terms and conditions.

          (1) The purchase price shall be $____________ per share. Payment
thereof shall be made in cash or, subject to the next sentence, by delivery to
the Corporation of shares of capital stock of the Corporation which shall be
valued at their Fair Market Value on the date of exercise, or in a combination
of cash and such shares. Your right to pay the purchase price, in whole or in
part, by delivery to the Corporation of shares of capital stock of the
Corporation is expressly subject to temporary or permanent revocation or
withdrawal at any time and from time to time to time by action of the Board of
Directors of the Corporation without any requirement that advance notice of such
revocation or withdrawal by given to you.

          (2) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (3) and (6), this option
is exercisable in whole or in part at any time and from time to time on or after
November 17, 2004. Neither this option nor any right hereunder may be assigned
or transferred by you, except by will, the laws of descent and distribution,
pursuant to a qualified Domestic Relations order, or to a permitted transferee.
It may be exercised during your life only by you or by a permitted transferee.
Within fifteen (15) months after your death it may be exercised only by your
estate, by a permitted transferee, or by a person who acquired the right to
exercise the option by bequest or inheritance or by reason of your death. At the
time of each exercise of this option, you or the person or persons exercising
the option shall, if requested by the person or persons exercising the option
shall, if requested by the Corporation, give assurances, satisfactory to counsel
to the Corporation, that the shares are being acquired for investment and not
with a view to resale or distribution thereof and assurances in respect of such
other matters as the Corporation may deem desirable to assure compliance with
all applicable legal requirements.

          (3) This option, to the extent that it shall not have been exercised,
shall terminate when you cease to be an employee of the Corporation or a
Subsidiary, unless you cease to be an
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                                                                   EXHIBIT 10.51

employee because of your resignation with the consent of the Incentive Committee
or because of your death, incapacity or retirement under a retirement plan of
the Corporation or a Subsidiary. If you cease to be an employee because of such
resignation, this option shall terminate upon the expiration of three months
after you cease to be an employee, except as provided in the next sentence. If
you cease to be an employee because of your death, incapacity or retirement
under a retirement plan of the Corporation or a Subsidiary, or if you case to be
an employee because of your resignation with the consent of the Incentive
Committee and die during the three-month period referred to in the preceding
sentence, this option shall terminate fifteen (15) months after you ceased to be
an employee. Where this option is exercised more than three months after
termination of employment, as aforesaid, only that which shall have become
exercisable prior to the expiration of three months after you ceased to be an
employee, whether by death or otherwise, may be exercised. A leave of absence
for military or governmental service or for other purposes shall not, if
approved by the Incentive Committee be deemed a termination of employment within
the meaning of this paragraph (3), provided, however, that this option may not
be exercised during any such leave of absence. Notwithstanding the foregoing
provisions of this paragraph (3) or any provision of the Plan, this option shall
not be exercisable after the expiration of ten years from the date this option
is granted.

          (4) The number and class of shares or other securities covered by this
option and the price to be paid therefore shall be subject to adjustment as, and
under the circumstances, provided in Section 8 of the Plan.

          (5) This option may be exercised only by serving written notice on the
Secretary or Treasurer of the Corporation. The Corporation shall deliver the
shares to you against payment; provided, however, no share shall be issued or
transferred pursuant to this option unless and until all legal requirements
applicable to the issuance or transfer of such shares have, in the opinion of
the counsel to the Corporation, been complied with. Any Federal, state or local
withholding taxes applicable to any compensation you may realize by reason of
the exercise of the option or any subsequent disposition of the shares acquired
on exercise shall, upon request, be remitted to the Corporation or the
Subsidiary by which you are employed at the time of exercise or sale, as the
case may be. You shall have the rights of a stockholder only as to stock
actually delivered to you.
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          (6) If you are or become an employee of a Subsidiary, the
Corporation's obligations hereunder shall be contingent on the approval of the
Plan and this option by the Subsidiary and the Subsidiary's agreement that (a)
the Corporation may administer the Plan on its behalf, and (b) upon the exercise
of the option, it will purchase from the Corporation the shares subject to the
exercise at their Fair Market Value on the date of exercise, such shares to be
then transferred by the Subsidiary to the holder of this option upon payment by
the holder of the purchase price to the Subsidiary. Where appropriate, such
approval and agreement of the Subsidiary shall be indicated by its signature
below. The obligation of the Subsidiary so undertaken may be waived by the
Corporation.

          (7) The Plan is hereby incorporated by reference. Each term which is
defined in the Plan and used in this option shall have the same meaning in this
option as it has in the Plan. This option is granted subject to the Plan and
shall be construed to conform to the Plan.

                                        Very truly yours,

                                        ROTO-ROOTER, INC.

                                        By:
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                                            Vice President and Secretary

Receipt Acknowledged:

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           Employee

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