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- 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
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- VA Home Based Primary Care
- VA WARMS
- Veterans: unsuitable annuities
- Video: Consider the Conversation
- Video: Indiana Adult Guardianship
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Monthly Archives: June 2016
Safety is not the main thing in elder caring:
Safety is not the main thing in elder caring: love is. :- Doug.
Foreclosing your life’s course
Does service to others foreclose your own optimized life course? Or, is it your optimized life course? :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Family
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Quite narrow
The top of the hill must be quite narrow: years you climb and climb, then suddenly you find yourself on the downhill. :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Eldering
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“Feeling rushed”
“Feeling rushed” is an example of how one person’s time thoughts are imposed upon another; often the two persons do not translate the same, which might have been intended by the imposer. :- Doug.
Posted in Professional Caregivers
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When you stir a pot
When you stir a pot new emerges: aromas, flavors, a cook’s heart :- Doug.
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someone’s grandchild?
Of what use are you, as someone’s grandchild? :- Doug.
Posted in Family
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New elder?
What is the new evolving in our elder? How is creation unfolding through her or him? :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Eldering
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Computers are the greatest time stealers
Computers are the greatest time stealers Words are the greatest conversation stoppers :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Poetry
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As much as they help
As much as they help words get in the way of our conversation :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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business as unusual
Let’s move toward business as unusual business oriented toward life :- Doug.
Posted in Poetry, Professional Caregivers
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Too many words!
Too many words! More conversation please. :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Conversation, Poetry
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Reversing Alzheimer’s
Here is a report of a small study showing personalized programs have reversed the effects of Alzheimer’s: http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2016/06/16/Personalized-treatment-may-reverse-Alzheimers-memory-loss/6921466083695/ “[T]he researchers designed a personalized 36-point program involving changes to diet, brain stimulation, exercise, optimization of sleep, specific pharmaceuticals and vitamins and … Continue reading
Posted in Alzheimer's and other dementias, News
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Show your love
Show your love—converse with us! :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Conversation, Professional Caregivers
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Goes round
Life is love is conversation is life… :- Doug.
Posted in Eldering, Family, Poetry
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Even our caring heart could not escape
Could we get pulled into a black hole of constricted conversation where even our caring heart could not escape? :- Doug.
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Time can be interleaved
Time can be interleaved—or activities and conversations can be interleaved with respect to time. I email you, you email me at another “time”—one conversation. Asynchronously. Polysynchronously. What if their brains do not allow them to respond while we are still … Continue reading
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