Category Archives: Long-Term Care and nursing homes
Notice who all came
Notice that several of you have come together. What can that mean for you? :- Doug.
What is this chapter of life about?
What is this chapter of life about? What good can you make of the nursing home? :- Doug.
This is aspirational
This is aspirational. Involves families and long-term care. :- Doug.
Can I accept compassion?
Can I accept compassion? :- Doug.
What we lack in a cared-for world:
What we lack in a cared-for world is creativity: our need to give, to be needed or at least of worth, to love. :- Doug.
Everything–O!
Today we have a place to Breathe for you Eat for you & Keep you safely Medicated —Everything you’d ever Want—O my! :- Doug.
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the long conference
My forte is the long conference. It is important to me to know people, to absorb one another. :- Doug.
Serving other attorneys?
How can we serve other attorneys in Medicaid issues? :- Doug.
Wait!
Wait! You don’t have to give it all away to pay for nursing home. :- Doug.
How to love in a nursing home?
How to love in a nursing home? How do we bring life to Mom? A good day to Dad? :- Doug.
What would it be OK to endure?
What would it be OK to endure: pain, living in bed, being done for? :- Doug.
The system fights love
The system fights back against love. Yet I tell you: we are the system. Moreover: we are the love. :- Doug.
Alzheimer’s is not a solitary disease
Alzheimer’s is not a solitary disease It is the dis-ease of being made solitary :- Doug.
Unsafe for whom?
Unsafe for whom? The nursing home patient or the nursing home administration? :- Doug.
The nurses and CNAs
The nurses and CNAs are untapped resources of information, intelligence, and heart. They are the sensitive fingertips of the beast, able to detect, able to handle delicate operations: able to bring meaning and human touch to a mechanical checklist—if we … Continue reading