Category Archives: Long-Term Care and nursing homes
Out beside
I cannot have a handle on you But I can camp out beside :- Doug.
Secrecy in the elder care business?
Why is there secrecy in the elder care business? I sent students to assisted living and nursing facilities to get sample admission contracts and they were refused. Is it “We know better than you, trust us?” Is it fear of … Continue reading
Suffer from Alzheimer’s?
Can people who have Alzheimer’s Disease suffer from it? Surely those around them do, and surely this person experiences pain. Pain is part of the human daily condition. But suffering is optional. We might wonder if, without memory of the … Continue reading
They put the old man in a home
They put the old man in a home Without e’en so much as a comb But he fooled them all: One day late in fall Eloped with his bride to the Dome :- Doug.
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When we could have been
Much of what we do is unthinking forgetting to engage our profundity and collateral effects detector So that if we think to promise Mom no nursing home we ought think about her sitting helplessly watching us kill ourselves While we … Continue reading
Don’t promise me no nursing homes
Please don’t promise me to never put me in a nursing home Instead, take me to visit my old home bring from there my favorite things But do not kill yourself cleaning after me, picking up my weight, cajoling me … Continue reading
Are nursing homes boring?
Are nursing homes boring? Do they cause people to be bored? Are they arranged for boredom? Do some people who refuse to be bored get labeled as “acting out,” “non compliant,” and get medicated for it? Is this boring arrangement … Continue reading
The modern form of shunning
How might we restore life to those in the nursing home? Do we see folks in nursing homes as dead men and women walking? We need to assign blame in this to ourselves, and not to society in general: what … Continue reading
How human in a nursing home?
How human, that is, creative, do we allow people to be in a nursing home? Staff, administrators, residents all face the same limits. :- Doug.
A way I am not
A way I am not I am a way To a way :- Doug.
Nursing home–working out a way
People say “Mom is in the nursing home and needs help. I need help to help her.” Then we sit and work out a way. :- Doug.
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A Mom is a terrible thing to waste
A Mom is a terrible thing to waste :- Doug.
What does he like to do now?
What does he like to do Now? Meet Dad anew :- Doug.
Good things, good people, nursing homes
Getting done good things for good people dealing with nursing homes. :- Doug.
Thinking forward in long-term health progressions
Thinking forward, thinking backward: how does this apply to families in long-term health progressions? Backward has its uses—what we have done for one another, how we have loved one another. Forward thinking takes us through observation and construction of the … Continue reading
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.