Category Archives: Long-Term Care and nursing homes

Uncertainty

Posted on December 19, 2012 by dgermann

Uncertainty is all we have :- Doug.

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We cannot plan for the future

Posted on November 16, 2012 by dgermann

We cannot plan for the future —Unknowable as it is— We can notice its aroma Scan into the morning mist Dress for the weather :- Doug.

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The velocity of our lives

Posted on November 6, 2012 by dgermann

We can know velocity of our lives and our financial position and our direction, but at most two at a given time: the third will be undefinable. :- Doug.

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What do we mean by “burden?”

Posted on November 3, 2012 by dgermann

What do we mean by “burden?” Can we put a picture to it? Do we mean divorcing ourselves from our children’s lives? Ripping ourselves out like weeds from the garden? :- Doug.

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Right living in your last days?

Posted on October 30, 2012 by dgermann

What is right living in your last days? :- Doug.

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Not simply dragging out

Posted on October 24, 2012 by dgermann

Conversation is not about simply dragging out what’s inside you. It is about shaping it. It is about discovering it. It is about co-creating it. I had not thought about dying on the boat dock till my friend Jerry voiced … Continue reading →

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“Observation status”

Posted on October 21, 2012 by dgermann

“First, do no harm.” Yet with “observation status” you are doing harm: to the sick, the frail, our elders. :- Doug.

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Start the melting

Posted on October 9, 2012 by dgermann

As I look around this people, I see the salt of the earth. Today, the world about us is icy: together you can start the melting. :- Doug.

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First, live well together….

Posted on October 9, 2012 by dgermann

First, live well together; second, see how the money parts can serve your living. :- Doug.

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There is more here.

Posted on October 6, 2012 by dgermann

There is more here. :- Doug.

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If we can’t laugh

Posted on August 16, 2012 by dgermann

If we can’t laugh, what sanity is there? :- Doug.

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Replanted in a nursing home

Posted on July 14, 2012 by dgermann

When Mom is pulled up by the roots Replanted in a nursing home We are ripped apart There is a hole in the garden Or we can see the garden wider Extending to the nursing home Fertilized by love What … Continue reading →

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See the brother and sister

Posted on July 12, 2012 by dgermann

See the brother and sister from far ends of the country who are dumping their mother in the best nursing home money can buy, easing their consciences by spending her money on her “care,” when she needed their presence. :- … Continue reading →

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Love letters to our families

Posted on July 8, 2012 by dgermann

Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Personal Care Agreements, Living Wills, end of life caring, Long-Term Caring: I help people write love letters to their families. :- Doug.

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Invite conversations of life and.

Posted on June 27, 2012 by dgermann

I invite conversations of life and. :- Doug.

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Have they forgotten…?

Posted on June 24, 2012 by dgermann

Yesterday they put Mom in the nursing home This morning dropped the kids at the day care Now they can get on with their life Have they forgotten their life is Mom, is the kids? Have they forgotten their life? … Continue reading →

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A special couple

Posted on June 11, 2012 by dgermann

  In 1998 I was attending a continuing legal education seminar in Indianapolis, and it was the first time I had been downtown since the new Center City Mall had opened, so I decided to go there for lunch.   … Continue reading →

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