Category Archives: Caring
The family responsibility question
The family responsibility question (shall the law force daughter and son to pay for their parents’ nursing home?) really points up the fact that the kind of care we get is a commercial transaction, and one of choices we make. … Continue reading
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Nursing homes: keeping your spouse out of poverty
We have some things that might help keep the spouse at home out of poverty, while giving the one in the nursing home the care the family wants, extending it as long as they choose. But notice there is a … Continue reading
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Last night this question wrestled with me:
Last night this question wrestled with me: how do we care for people, do we really need so much nursing home, are we trying to hold back the sea with our hands? In different words, when do we let go, … Continue reading
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Picking your path
How will you pick your path through these woods? :- Doug.
Why can’t we
Why can’t we take care of our elders the way we used to? Is it mistreating if we can’t afford our pills and so go without? Does one choice hasten death, or does the other stretch out our deaths? What … Continue reading
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Sometimes the professional
Sometimes the role of the professional is to turn his or her economic gains to losses for the sake of the person in his or her care. :- Doug.
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If money
If money is the only thing you can think to give away how poor! :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry, Wills
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Just whom we need
We are all we’ve got! And just whom we need! :- Doug.
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Bringing families to their
Sometimes caring is bringing families to their elemental togetherness. :- Doug.
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People can come together
People can come together think together care together, again (it does happen) you can find your way some folks will share a map :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Conversation, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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We all want to be vulnerable
More than you’d suspect We all want to be vulnerable Just in a safe place To let our shoulders down Be our true flawed self :- Doug.
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a long-care Sherpa?
I’m a long-care Sherpa? :- Doug.
their way through the long-care woods
Parents, children, and spouses can find their way through the long-care woods. :- Doug.
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One center, one understanding, one overall direction
What is is about my elder caring work? I like having answers, but I like more helping people find their own ways through, bringing the family to one center, one understanding, one overall direction. :- Doug.
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Find themselves wise?
I like being able to solve problems others cannot, to have a tool (trick?) bag others lack, and being seen as the valuable one. But am I thus giving less value than wisdom? Put another way, would give more value … Continue reading
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