Category Archives: Professional Caregivers

Die alone

Posted on May 14, 2017 by dgermann

To let someone die alone and in severe pain is a failure of medical (and human) imagination :- Doug.

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In illness we as visitor, as sufferer, are stuck in the pain and againstness. How might we free ourselves? The very how might be in the act of traveling elsewhere. Yesterday always fades in today’s new thing. :- Doug.

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Responsibility for their own caring

Posted on May 12, 2017 by dgermann

Elders take responsibility, not for outcomes, rather for their own caring for the children, for the others. :- Doug.

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Inciting a decent society

Posted on May 12, 2017 by dgermann

If we intend to be human we ought to open to hearing what is difficult to hear. Do we have the imagination to take into ourselves the experiences of another? Is this something an elder can learn for the rest … Continue reading →

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To sing his or her life

Posted on May 11, 2017 by dgermann

Here’s an elder in a nursing home, or here’s one with dementia: What could it mean to hear this one encouraged to tell or sing his or her life? :- Doug.

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Can it be fulfilling?

Posted on May 11, 2017 by dgermann

Can living with a nursing home be fulfilling? :- Doug.

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What has your life taught you?

Posted on May 11, 2017 by dgermann

What has your life taught you about caring for another and about accepting care? Whom have you met and what have they taught you about being an elder, about the role of the elder in the family and community? :- … Continue reading →

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Look for one who has a heart….

Posted on May 9, 2017 by dgermann

Look for a lawyer who has a heart, cares, hears you, opens herself or himself to you, takes time with you, protects you. :- Doug.

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Done to–or being-doing?

Posted on April 29, 2017 by dgermann

Done to—or being-doing: this is the end of life question. :- Doug.

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Crazy talk sense

Posted on April 22, 2017 by dgermann

The sense to use with crazy talk in the dying is Let’s find out. Be curious. Ask. He might just be using metaphor or saying it in story. She might just want assurances that you will be OK, that she … Continue reading →

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grace in being cared for

Posted on April 9, 2017 by dgermann

A giving in receiving grace in being cared for: our presence softly :- Doug.

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Be daring!

Posted on April 6, 2017 by dgermann

Be daring: be caring! :- Doug.

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The questions

Posted on March 23, 2017 by dgermann

I bring the questions. :- Doug.

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I work for nice people

Posted on March 21, 2017 by dgermann

I work for nice people. Nice people are caring. That’s why I get to call myself an elder caring attorney. :- Doug.

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When you think they may not

Posted on March 20, 2017 by dgermann

I help people get on Medicaid, even when you think they may not qualify. :- Doug.

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Care is from corporate

Posted on March 13, 2017 by dgermann

Care is from corporate Caring is from the heart :- Doug.

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the soft one

Posted on March 6, 2017 by dgermann

I’m the soft one. :- Doug.

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