Category Archives: Long-Term Care and nursing homes
gather a healthy family?
What does it mean to gather a healthy family around an elder? :- Doug.
The question of nursing homes
The question of nursing homes and their cost is at base a question of relieving worries and opening the family to moving beyond money to meaning. :- Doug.
Figuring how to live in a nursing home
Figuring how to live in a nursing home starts much earlier. Who are you? What does living mean to you? Are you the chef, the joker, the family historian, the fixer? What role do you love to play, no, have … Continue reading
Paddle in the direction the river is going
If we concentrate on what people with Alzheimer’s are missing, on how their “condition” is affecting both of us, we stir up things for them, cause consternation, guilt, inferiority feelings and feelings of things not going rightly. But if we … Continue reading
Is there life after nursing home?
Is there life after nursing home? We can make that life, if we have the gumption. We can get out all the books and articles about helping children learn to read and to become independent, and see what makes sense. … Continue reading
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elective?
What of this care is elective? :- Doug.
We do not have courage to love
We do not have the courage to love. We do not know how to find the courage to love. You work in a nursing home. You are not a manager. You want to be caring to those you are given … Continue reading
Miller Trust
Miller Trust: MT stands for “void of reason.” :- Doug.
Safe is the base
Safe is the base not the best we can do for our elders :- Doug.
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Alive inside Alzheimer’s
Started watching a video last night called “Alive Inside.” It is about music and memory, using music on ipods to awaken folks who have turned inside with dementia and Alzheimer’s. Some top people are interviewed and some science is shared, … Continue reading
You can’t know what you need to know
You can’t know what you need to know you’ll learn along the way or you’ll have to make it up :- Doug.
as we are
We see our family and the nursing home not as it is but as we are. :- Doug.
Elders in crisis
Elders in crisis and I work on reflection and heart matters. :- Doug.