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Other useful sites
- A. Home Health Care Compare
- A. Nursing Home Compare, Federal
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- 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.1. Making Health Care Decisions for Someone Else
- D.2. Managing someone else's money
- D.3. Eldercare Locator (Health and Human Services dept of US gov't)
- 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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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Senior flash mob
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/west_roxbury/2012/06/video_seniors_flash_mob_west_r.html :- Doug.
Posted in Healing and Wholeness
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Interview your elders
Interview your elders: What is life about? What does it mean to be an elder to your tribe, to do the work of eldering? :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Eldering
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Conversation: what matters
Conversation: what matters. :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family
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Law is a complex weave
Law is a complex weave of possibilities, risks, costs, feelings, interests, people, and vagaries, among other threads. It is not therefore a vending machine: money in/product out. :- Doug.
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Quick! Get me to a TV show!
Quick, get me to a TV show! Since the TV patients who get CPR survive 67% of the time, and those in the hospital only 6.5 to 15%, and the ones on TV recover fully, then if I need CPR, … Continue reading
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Replanted in a nursing home
When Mom is pulled up by the roots Replanted in a nursing home We are ripped apart There is a hole in the garden Or we can see the garden wider Extending to the nursing home Fertilized by love What … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Caring, Dreams, Eldering, Family, Long-Term Care and nursing homes
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What of the fragile?
What of the poor, the frail, the fragile? They have no more strength for anything outside themselves: perhaps. But what can they do? What do they do? They can love: they can turn outwards. Turning outward reverses the flow of … Continue reading
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See the brother and sister
See the brother and sister from far ends of the country who are dumping their mother in the best nursing home money can buy, easing their consciences by spending her money on her “care,” when she needed their presence. :- … Continue reading
Inviting old age to pour
I invite this old age estuary to pour into the sea, to expand and spread itself. This is a larger picture than devising the meaning of one’s life, of hugging and forgiving and laughing and crying at our death bed. … Continue reading
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Love letters to our families
Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Personal Care Agreements, Living Wills, end of life caring, Long-Term Caring: I help people write love letters to their families. :- Doug.
The challenges and joys of eldering?
What are the challenges and joys of eldering? :- Doug.
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What are the questions?
What are the questions we should be asking about elder years to get us where we want to go? :- Doug.
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