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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
- C. VA Aid & Attendance FAQs
- 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 WARMS
- Veterans: unsuitable annuities
- Video: Consider the Conversation
- Video: Indiana Adult Guardianship
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Monthly Archives: July 2014
find their creativity
Ask Mom or Dad to make a painting, poem, sculpture; find their creativity. :- Doug.
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with Dad?
What can we create with Dad? :- Doug.
Song surreptitiously
To invite deeper conversation: Share a song surreptitiously: what were the words to X? :- Doug.
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Deeper conversaion:
To invite deeper conversation: share a reflective song, for example, What a Wonderful World. :- Doug.
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Gathering a family
Gathering a family heart, mind, and can-do around the person most in need of our loving :- Doug.
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Enforced do nothing mode
Just researched a bit about expressive therapy: the use of music, art, and story telling to help folks with dementia have a higher quality life. For me I understand higher quality to mean more woven into life. This study says … Continue reading
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Silence is a massage
Silence is a massage Of brain, heart, and will :- Doug.
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Enjoying the world contributes
Enjoying the world contributes to improving it We take its measure, test its supposed limits :- Doug.
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Teach conversation to lawyers
Teach conversation to lawyers Sacred relationship—the heart of law practice Irreplaceable and interchangeable at once With whom else can we partner? :- Doug.
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What good could come?
What good could come from letting in difference? :- Doug.
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Be strong enough to
Be strong enough to withhold your tongue. :- Doug.
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No roses without thorns
No roses without thorns red’s buds are ephemeral gentian blooms all summer humans bloom for a season pretend to fang and claw do cling to one another by generations a little immortal :- Doug.
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The little beasties are doing this to us
We see the beast in front of us—the Internet—and how it is changing not only our lives but the way we think, even our spirituality. We meet and count as friends and good people folks from other countries we never … Continue reading
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Just like the rest of us
Love them. They are little children in adult clothes, just like the rest of us. :- Doug.
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