Category Archives: Aging
Stay put.
Stay Put: What do you do when the doctor rushes out and you did not have a chance to ask all your questions? Ira Byock, in his latest book, The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through … Continue reading
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choose to not ever be elderly
Each can choose to not ever be elderly; better, each can choose to be an Elder of the Tribe. :- Doug.
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We cannot plan for the future
We cannot plan for the future —Unknowable as it is— We can notice its aroma Scan into the morning mist Dress for the weather :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Family, Long-Term Care and nursing homes, Poetry
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A precious resource
In our society we have equated elderly with infirmity, in-valid-ity. Yet other times and cultures have learned this is a time of rich harvest and that elders are a precious resource. :- Doug.
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The velocity of our lives
We can know velocity of our lives and our financial position and our direction, but at most two at a given time: the third will be undefinable. :- Doug.
What do we mean by “burden?”
What do we mean by “burden?” Can we put a picture to it? Do we mean divorcing ourselves from our children’s lives? Ripping ourselves out like weeds from the garden? :- Doug.
“Observation status”
“First, do no harm.” Yet with “observation status” you are doing harm: to the sick, the frail, our elders. :- Doug.
Start the melting
As I look around this people, I see the salt of the earth. Today, the world about us is icy: together you can start the melting. :- Doug.
Granny Suites?
Friends– Know any builder who’d like to offer these here? http://www.startribune.com/business/169047386.html :- Doug.
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