Category Archives: Long-Term Care and nursing homes
Our family holds a story:
Our family holds a story: a stroke, trach tube, speech gone, crisis, must pull together, but years ago harsh words, hard to stitch this rent fabric Holding our breath we consult a lawyer the lawyer has no silver needle only … Continue reading
If Mama ain’t happy
If Mama ain’t happy ain’t nobody happy If Daddy’s in the nursing facility ain’t nobody not in the nursing facility :- Doug.
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Don’t look at how much money this long-term care strategy will save you
Don’t look at how much money this long-term care strategy will save you; rather how much life is engendered: life in food and shelter for Mom, life in providing for her husband and children, life in the lessons she can … Continue reading
Nursing homes: keeping your spouse out of poverty
We have some things that might help keep the spouse at home out of poverty, while giving the one in the nursing home the care the family wants, extending it as long as they choose. But notice there is a … Continue reading
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Last night this question wrestled with me:
Last night this question wrestled with me: how do we care for people, do we really need so much nursing home, are we trying to hold back the sea with our hands? In different words, when do we let go, … Continue reading
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Picking your path
How will you pick your path through these woods? :- Doug.
Doctor, must I take that pill?
Doctor, must I take that pill? :- Doug.
Why can’t we
Why can’t we take care of our elders the way we used to? Is it mistreating if we can’t afford our pills and so go without? Does one choice hasten death, or does the other stretch out our deaths? What … Continue reading
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a long-care Sherpa?
I’m a long-care Sherpa? :- Doug.
their way through the long-care woods
Parents, children, and spouses can find their way through the long-care woods. :- Doug.
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Telemedicine to keep you at home
Friends– Here’s an article from CNBC about a non-profit in Pennsylvania trying out telemedicine: essentially it looks to be a monitoring device that allows nurses and doctors to be alerted if you fall or have other needs. Thus, for some … Continue reading
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I cannot answer your questions
I cannot answer your questions. I can only address them. Only you can answer your questions. You take in what I give you, adjust its fit and assimilate into yourself only what fits for you. :- Doug.
CMS erases Medicare “Improvement Standard”
Friends– Nursing homes and others have for years cut off people from Medicare payments (and therefore therapy) when they were no longer “improving” or had “plateaued.” These words should be red flags for you. If you hear them, it is … Continue reading
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The middle class long-term care safety net
Medicaid is the middle class long-term care safety net. :- Doug.