Category Archives: Professional Caregivers
To hold dear
Care is commercial Caring is to hold dear :- Doug.
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remain unused?
Do we dare—dare! remain unused? :- Doug.
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Will you converse?
Will you converse? :- Doug.
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We the families
We, the families, and the professionals who work outside the facilities, can start carrying life back through those doors. First we have to see life where staff see loss and less. Then we engage spontaneity and convivium. :- Doug.
Safety a launch pad
Safety ought be a launch pad for elders to be and fly, not an instrument of suffocation. :- Doug.
Less worse?
Are we making aging less worse Or improving living? :- Doug.
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Give you caring?
Do you give your clients opportunity to give you caring? :- Doug.
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Caring companioning
Caring is companioning Care is strangers doing for strangers So are you sharing your with? :- Doug.
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A reason for nursing homes
One reason we have nursing homes is that mere adults see old people as being of no further use. They no longer produce children nor money. Therefore they hold us back, keep us from these activities of adult years. We … Continue reading
To wish not to be a burden
To wish to not be a burden on your children is at root selfish. For will you be abandoned if you are too much burden? Yet your son’s soul goes out to you and your daughter needs to mother you. … Continue reading
Caring defines humans
Caring for one another is what defines us as humans, what opens up our worlds. :- Doug.
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Jellies, jams, preserves
Medicaid is like Grandma’s choices for putting up fruit: jellies, jams, and preserves. Elder caring lawyers concentrate on preserves: preserving the most of the fruits of your life’s work. :- Doug.
Out of doors
Do some little thing out of doors every day. :- Doug.
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Paid discontinuity
I am paid to bring discontinuity. :- Doug.
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Einstein’s circle of compassion
Albert Einstein’s famous quote about optical delusions, ends with him saying “This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free … Continue reading