Category Archives: Caring
Old lawyers ought to be poets
Old lawyers ought to be poets—taking a longer view of clients, families, and age. :- Doug.
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Effective for frail
How can we be effective advocates for frail elders? :- Doug.
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Nice doer
Be a nice doer. :- Doug.
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Poetry and law
Poetry and law exchange significance :- Doug.
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To hold dear
Care is commercial Caring is to hold dear :- Doug.
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remain unused?
Do we dare—dare! remain unused? :- Doug.
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Will you converse?
Will you converse? :- Doug.
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POAs not about words
Lawyer, POAs are not primarily about the words in your form, but about the elder in your focus. :- Doug.
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We the families
We, the families, and the professionals who work outside the facilities, can start carrying life back through those doors. First we have to see life where staff see loss and less. Then we engage spontaneity and convivium. :- Doug.
Safety a launch pad
Safety ought be a launch pad for elders to be and fly, not an instrument of suffocation. :- Doug.
Take your elder home
Take your elder home: visit the old places, even if you cannot enter. Seek entry risking being turned away: you may be welcomed. For sure it will be a meeting of a new circumstance worth telling. :- Doug.
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Less worse?
Are we making aging less worse Or improving living? :- Doug.
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Give you caring?
Do you give your clients opportunity to give you caring? :- Doug.
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Caring companioning
Caring is companioning Care is strangers doing for strangers So are you sharing your with? :- Doug.
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A reason for nursing homes
One reason we have nursing homes is that mere adults see old people as being of no further use. They no longer produce children nor money. Therefore they hold us back, keep us from these activities of adult years. We … Continue reading
To wish not to be a burden
To wish to not be a burden on your children is at root selfish. For will you be abandoned if you are too much burden? Yet your son’s soul goes out to you and your daughter needs to mother you. … Continue reading