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Other useful sites
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- A. Nursing Home Report Cards, Indiana
- A. Nursing Homes Deficiency Reports
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- G. Study: Caregivers' and Seniors' Financial Realities
- H. Elders' Bills of Rights (Please add any you find to be caring.)
- MA: HHS CMS State Medicaid Manuals
- MA: Indiana's FSSA ICES Manual
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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.
Posted in Conversation
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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, don’t take me to a hospital; get me to the TV station!
:- Doug.
Posted in Emergency/Crisis Medical
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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 then can be for us
The new life
The new whole
Can we dare think
The new flowering?
:- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Caring, Dreams, Eldering, Family, Long-Term Care
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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 disease. Love makes whole.
:- Doug.
Posted in Healing and Wholeness
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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.
:- Doug.
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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.
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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. We all are poured out into the great sea; we all spread out and expand. This is something to celebrate, not mourn. We can pour out our libation into the great sea, and become larger whole.
:- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Healing and Wholeness
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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.
Posted in Eldering
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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.
Posted in Eldering
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