Category Archives: Aging
Inventory of Personal Information
A local home care agency, Senior1Care, is offering a good inventory of personal information. It is a way to gather a lot of info that will make much easier the job of providing health care for you, as well as … Continue reading
Maslow of gerontology
I am a Maslow of gerontology: not a dismal science of all that can go wrong but seeker of what grows. :- Doug.
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I help people do the work of aging
I help people do the work of aging. :- Doug.
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What is the work of aging?
What is the work of aging? Perhaps it is harvesting our wisdom, finding meaningful ways to pass it on, fulfilling our lives by emptying out to others all our good. What is the work of aging, and what can it … Continue reading
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respect the pain of the older ones
I respect the pain of the older ones; I cannot always alleviate it. This is the difference between caring and care. I respect the beauty of each soul, and seek to hear it out into the open. :- Doug.
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Trying on garments is young person’s work
Trying on garments is young person’s work dancing shoes working suit and tie cook’s apron; parent’s towel expert’s demeanor; hider’s shadows worshiper’s solemnity bon vivant’s broad smile But later when you’re seeking your truth & wisdom the way of this … Continue reading
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Where’s the needle, where’s the thread?
When Mom’s mind begins to crack and shrivel We want to go retrieve the pieces From our remembered store Even though we know There’s no thread to stitch Memory to flesh :- Doug.
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I met a man yesterday….
I met a man yesterday who in the twentieth year of his retirement, despite, maybe because of, physical disabilities, reads a book a day. His mind is sharp, his handshake firm, and he smiles a lot at a world he … Continue reading
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What is right for Bob?
What is right for Bob? What would make his moments and hours better, relieve his pains of whatever nature? From his point of view? What if you were someone else’s child visiting him while you were visiting theirs? Does it … Continue reading
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The helping goes both ways
The point of conversation in elder caring is not that you need an expert to navigate this getting older maze but that we need each other. Our group brain is bigger than any one of our brains. When you come … Continue reading
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Joy of burden
In your old age Give your children and grandchildren The joy of the burden of you :- Doug.
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