Category Archives: Caring
The system fights love
The system fights back against love. Yet I tell you: we are the system. Moreover: we are the love. :- Doug.
Alzheimer’s is not a solitary disease
Alzheimer’s is not a solitary disease It is the dis-ease of being made solitary :- Doug.
Love is not
Love is not What we think It is :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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Love is not normal
Love is not normal Love is not comfortable Until you dare :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Eldering, Poetry
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The nurses and CNAs
The nurses and CNAs are untapped resources of information, intelligence, and heart. They are the sensitive fingertips of the beast, able to detect, able to handle delicate operations: able to bring meaning and human touch to a mechanical checklist—if we … Continue reading
People with people
People with people working on caring for one another we are. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Eldering
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might not get better. But we can
People in nursing homes might not get better. But we can. We can treat them better. More importantly, they can live meaningfully. They can have light in their eyes. :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Caring, Long-Term Care and nursing homes
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Life converses or it dies
Life converses or it dies. Give us a living being to care for and we flourish. :- Doug.
The three Ps of nursing homes
When people talk about a family member languishing in a nursing home, I will do the caring thing if I suggest they bring in parakeets and pets and plants. :- Doug.
Unregimenting the regimented
Unregimenting the regimented: this may be the soul work of making more caring our caring for our elders. We certainly have the technology to deliver individual care. Instead we send a platoon of sergeant-nurses through the ranks of dependent people … Continue reading
We are people taking care of people
We are people taking care of people. :- Doug.
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life after nursing home
There can be life after nursing home. :- Doug.
love your families
I’m not out to compete with others— I’m here to help my clients love their families :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Family, Poetry
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measuring more finely in end of life
We need to measure outcomes of end of life caring more finely: for the larger outcome for us all is death. What if we looked for outcomes in dying? :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Emergency/Crisis Medical
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What would intensive tenderness look like?
What would intensive tenderness look like? :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Emergency/Crisis Medical
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