Author Archives: dgermann
Life converses or it dies
Life converses or it dies. Give us a living being to care for and we flourish. :- Doug.
Beyond reverence for life
Beyond reverence for life, engage life. Put life into conversation with itself. :- Doug.
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The three Ps of nursing homes
When people talk about a family member languishing in a nursing home, I will do the caring thing if I suggest they bring in parakeets and pets and plants. :- Doug.
insert life
Let us insert life into the life-sucking nursing home regimen. :- Doug.
Unregimenting the regimented
Unregimenting the regimented: this may be the soul work of making more caring our caring for our elders. We certainly have the technology to deliver individual care. Instead we send a platoon of sergeant-nurses through the ranks of dependent people … Continue reading
If you want to grow happier, grow older
If you want to grow happier, grow older. Or at least have a near-life experience. :- Doug.
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Where the near-magic happens
This is where the near-magic happens. :- Doug.
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Imagination strangled out of everyone touching nursing homes
Imagination has been so strangled out of everyone in or touching nursing homes that the blood flow is restricted all the way to the head. :- Doug.
To have a chance of staying out of a nursing home:
To have a chance at staying out of a nursing home: have at least one daughter. :- Doug.
The nursing home, like war
The nursing home, like war, is a failure of imagination. For surely nursing homes as presently constituted are a war upon life, dignity, worth, and our parents and husbands and wives. :- Doug.
Before it becomes our turn,
Before it becomes our turn, let’s fix nursing homes. :- Doug.
We are people taking care of people
We are people taking care of people. :- Doug.
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Families facing nursing homes:
Families facing nursing homes: we might be of help. :- Doug.
Providing “care” for our elders
Our way of providing “care” for our elders stems from the culture we have cultivated—rugged individualism has grown up to become everybody rely on no one else, buy everything we need—right down to someone to change our diapers. :- Doug.
life after nursing home
There can be life after nursing home. :- Doug.
Nursing homes can be approached without fear
Nursing homes can be approached without fear. :- Doug.