Author Archives: dgermann
open me
My silence can open me to nuances of you :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family, Poetry
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Pieces of our own lives
We pay for the care we give our loved ones with pieces of our own lives. :- Doug.
Posted in Healing and Wholeness
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The family responsibility question
The family responsibility question (shall the law force daughter and son to pay for their parents’ nursing home?) really points up the fact that the kind of care we get is a commercial transaction, and one of choices we make. … Continue reading
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Nursing homes: keeping your spouse out of poverty
We have some things that might help keep the spouse at home out of poverty, while giving the one in the nursing home the care the family wants, extending it as long as they choose. But notice there is a … Continue reading
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Last night this question wrestled with me:
Last night this question wrestled with me: how do we care for people, do we really need so much nursing home, are we trying to hold back the sea with our hands? In different words, when do we let go, … Continue reading
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Picking your path
How will you pick your path through these woods? :- Doug.
The crisis can be good
The crisis can be good. The crisis in health care of which we are only now catching contours—the slashed budgets, the cost containments—can be good. Someone might (unexpectedly—really?) ask, What are we actually about? Is the only way through, more … Continue reading
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Doctor, must I take that pill?
Doctor, must I take that pill? :- Doug.
Why can’t we
Why can’t we take care of our elders the way we used to? Is it mistreating if we can’t afford our pills and so go without? Does one choice hasten death, or does the other stretch out our deaths? What … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Caring, Long-Term Care and nursing homes
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Sometimes the professional
Sometimes the role of the professional is to turn his or her economic gains to losses for the sake of the person in his or her care. :- Doug.
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If money
If money is the only thing you can think to give away how poor! :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry, Wills
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Let the bird
Let the bird find its own perch the new might not fit the way you think receive :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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Once you know the way
Once you know the way it’s no longer the way :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Conversation, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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Family is frustrating to me sometimes
Family is frustrating to me sometimes And I would have no other :- Doug.
Posted in Family, Poetry
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Setting the stage
Setting the stage your Will is :- Doug.
Posted in Estates: Administration & Probate, Poetry, Wills
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Just whom we need
We are all we’ve got! And just whom we need! :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness
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