Category Archives: Aging
Suffer from Alzheimer’s?
Can people who have Alzheimer’s Disease suffer from it? Surely those around them do, and surely this person experiences pain. Pain is part of the human daily condition. But suffering is optional. We might wonder if, without memory of the … Continue reading
They put the old man in a home
They put the old man in a home Without e’en so much as a comb But he fooled them all: One day late in fall Eloped with his bride to the Dome :- Doug.
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When we could have been
Much of what we do is unthinking forgetting to engage our profundity and collateral effects detector So that if we think to promise Mom no nursing home we ought think about her sitting helplessly watching us kill ourselves While we … Continue reading
Don’t promise me no nursing homes
Please don’t promise me to never put me in a nursing home Instead, take me to visit my old home bring from there my favorite things But do not kill yourself cleaning after me, picking up my weight, cajoling me … Continue reading
paper thin skin
On my hands paper thin skin like my grandparents’ was surprised am I that I am not exempt! :- Doug.
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The modern form of shunning
How might we restore life to those in the nursing home? Do we see folks in nursing homes as dead men and women walking? We need to assign blame in this to ourselves, and not to society in general: what … Continue reading
Nursing home–working out a way
People say “Mom is in the nursing home and needs help. I need help to help her.” Then we sit and work out a way. :- Doug.
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A new person every day
A new person every day Mom is Can I meet her afresh? :- Doug.
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A Mom is a terrible thing to waste
A Mom is a terrible thing to waste :- Doug.
What does he like to do now?
What does he like to do Now? Meet Dad anew :- Doug.
Woman, 92,
Woman, 92, Strong mind, strong will, Body visibly frail Why do we get the disease of Living too long? :- Doug.
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tip of my tongue disease
I have experienced tip of my tongue disease. :- Doug.
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9-year-olds, 3-year-olds
If some people who have trouble thinking are in some ways regressing, then what activities do we give to 9-year-olds, 3-year-olds? Could those things bring pleasure to some of our elders, help them feel engaged, heard, and touched? If this … Continue reading
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Thinking forward in long-term health progressions
Thinking forward, thinking backward: how does this apply to families in long-term health progressions? Backward has its uses—what we have done for one another, how we have loved one another. Forward thinking takes us through observation and construction of the … Continue reading
What do you like to do?
What do you like to do? Have you tried anything new in the last decade? Painting, poetry, pottery? What keeps your spirit young? :- Doug.
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