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Other useful sites
- A. Home Health Care Compare
- A. Nursing Home Compare, Federal
- A. Nursing Home Report Cards, Indiana (slow loading)
- A. Nursing Homes Deficiency Reports (might run slowly in Internet Explorer)
- A. People Medicare excludes from providing care
- B. Indiana Medicaid explained
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- D.2. Managing someone else's money
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- E. SHIP: State Health Insurance Program
- F. Cost of Care study: Nursing Homes, Assisted Living, Home Care Providers
- H. Elders' Bills of Rights (Please add any you find to be caring.)
- I. Plan Your Lifespan
- MA: HHS CMS State Medicaid Manuals
- MA: Indiana's FSSA IHCPPM Manual
- SSA POMS
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- VA Home Based Primary Care
- VA WARMS
- Veterans: unsuitable annuities
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- Video: Indiana Adult Guardianship
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
carries a sacred function:
Conversation carries a sacred function. It bears a generative force, for what we can speak can be; what we hear can be. Conversation is holy work because it is about hearing hope out into the open where it can go … Continue reading
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She gave up
She gave up a career to care for her mother, declining but all she gave away was ambition to get the giving :- Doug.
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Inheriting responsibility
We are heirs We inherit all the gifts All the responsibility :- Doug.
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Wills are about this:
Wills are about this: how much life can your last words give? :- Doug.
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20 Common Nursing Home Problems
The National Senior Citizens Law Center has just republished its eye-opening guide. A single free copy can be downloaded here: http://www.nsclc.org/publications/manuals/manual.2006-06-08.3692004924 For instance, did you know: –A relative does not have to sign as responsible for the elder’s nursing home … Continue reading
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What good could 20 ordinary folks do…?
What good could 20 ordinary folks do together that one keep-it-for-my-own person won’t? :- Doug.
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Two gardens
Two gardens we are given to tend The one within our fence The one without, embracing it :- Doug.
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Way to start a grandparent’s tale:
Way to start a grandparent’s tale: In a land of surprise this is what happened tomorrow. :- Doug.
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The summer’s come on so suddenly
The summer’s come on so suddenly & now is nearly gone the seasons come round so quickly they leave my head spinning The older I get the faster spins the reel of remaining tape Yet if we look we may … Continue reading
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Dragonflies
The sun and the wind & the dragonflies are one and sitting among all these you and I with them are one hawk wheeling above dew glittering cars with pavement singing are one tree frogs not heard but deafening remind … Continue reading
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