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Elder Caring Lawyer

Long-Term Care: mysterious words and ways and….

Long-term care mixes the mysterious words and ways of medicine with the arcane rules and regulations of bureaucrat and insurance giant, and presents you with choices, the consequences of which you cannot yet see. Yet there are people in these … Continue reading

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Work as inviting….

My work can be seen in terms of invite, free, call whole mmm. :- Doug.

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New tool: What’s your prognosis?

Friends– GeriPal.org has posted a combination electronic tool for doctors and other clinicians to use to get an idea about how long you or Mom or Dad might live, given your health and a number of other factors. You might … Continue reading

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Scouting paths

I will go on ahead and scout out some paths through your woods. :- Doug.

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Cast your line into the water

I can be your guide, but you’ve got to cast your line into the water. :- Doug.

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Law, technicalities and guessing

Law is not solely about the technicalities: it goes beyond to what works, what is apt to work, and where peoples’ hearts want to go. All life is guessing; we must work also with art and heart. :- Doug.

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Life, Death, and What Really Matters

Hi– Here is a great article on what dying people can teach us: http://noetic.org/noetic/issue-eighteen-january/life-death-and-what-really-matters/ From the article: “Their message is actually simple: focus only on the things that are most important while there is still time to make a difference.” … Continue reading

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Heart and hearing

What I bring to my clients, to the law: sensitivity and caring: heart and hearing. These two things. :- Doug.

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Getting through the long-term care woods

You can get to the other side of the woods by many paths: some have bogs and some briers and some are better trodden, but even the better worn still have precarious spots and some unfriendly critters here and there. … Continue reading

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Before we part….

Make our next appointment before we part. :- Doug.

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What we shouldn’t tell our grandchildren

We shouldn’t tell our grandchildren that they have a lifetime in front of them. Don’t sugar coat. They have a few short years and had better choose wisely and get to work quickly and effectively. :- Doug.

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The important thing

The important thing is that we converse. :- Doug.

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Living well all the way through

Eldering is about living well all the way through. :- Doug.

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On not missing death

Death is something I for now think I do not want to miss. I do not want to be on morphine or other substance to make me sleep through death. I want to be thoroughly alert. For I suspect there … Continue reading

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Write a gift book:

Write a gift book: something to give your best to the world. :- Doug.

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On probate and lawyers:

On probate and lawyers: Accept the assistance of another human being who seeks to ease the way for you. Muzzle not the ox who tramples grain for you—pay him or her for helping. Do not expect something for nothing—of such … Continue reading

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Still living at your age?

We are still living at this age not because there is something for us to do; rather there is to love more opportunity given us. :- Doug.

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