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Other useful sites
- A. Home Health Care Compare
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- B. Indiana Medicaid explained
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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
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Monthly Archives: September 2014
One family thing
What’s one thing important for me to know about your family? Tell me a story that illustrates that. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Family
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A story of family
Tell me a story from your life that helps me understand an important aspect of your family. :- Doug.
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Your commitment to your father
What is a story from your life that tells a little bit about your commitment to your father? :- Doug.
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A story of Dad
I converse. That is my work: engaging people in their world for good. Specifically for Mom and Dad facing difficulties thinking, getting along, staying healthy. :- Doug.
Posted in Family, Healing and Wholeness
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Seeking an even larger view
I have felt best about my work when I sat with the man whose wife is in the nursing home and we pondered about how life changed in a stroke—literally—and how to respond to a daughter who is both in … Continue reading
Posted in Caring, Eldering, Poetry
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The question working me these days
The question that is working me these days is this: what is the larger picture of my work in the world? There is a family view, and there is a societal view. Both are larger than my little how I … Continue reading
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Engaging people, their world, for good
I converse. That is my work: engaging people in their world for good. Specifically for Mom and Dad facing difficulties thinking, getting along, staying healthy. :- Doug.
Highest aspirations
I am after motivations, especially highest aspirations. How do you want to see your mother treated now? What would you do if you could? What do you think your mother wants now? :- Doug.
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You are affected by Mom’s health
Reflection might start with getting people to see how they are affected by Mom’s or Dad’s health, by admitting their own vulnerable confusion and overwhelm, and finding their own role in the matter. :- Doug.
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I get to ask, “How?”
I get to ask, “How?” How do we care for Mom and Dad When thinking becomes difficult? Walking? Eating? Taking medicines? I get to ask this of families And of communities :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Caring, Conversation, Family, Poetry
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Getting Mom or Dad in the nursing home
I get to help people get Mom or Dad in the nursing home for good. I’ll let you reflect on what way I might have meant. :- Doug.
Is not to prepare a Power of Attorney
To prepare a Power of Attorney Is not to only prepare a Power of Attorney It only takes an hour to prepare And then another hour to Explore it with you :- Doug.
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How is this affecting Mom?
Ask, How is this affecting Mom? Then, How is this affecting you? :- Doug.
Unearthing shared perceptions
Unearthing shared perceptions might be a key. Leading toward wider perceptions of the world in which they find themselves. Look at the grey cloth, examine it, then look through it, eventually poke holes. :- Doug.
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