Category Archives: Caring

Replanted in a nursing home

Posted on July 14, 2012 by dgermann

When Mom is pulled up by the roots Replanted in a nursing home We are ripped apart There is a hole in the garden Or we can see the garden wider Extending to the nursing home Fertilized by love What … Continue reading →

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Invite conversations of life and.

Posted on June 27, 2012 by dgermann

I invite conversations of life and. :- Doug.

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Do you have soft edges?

Posted on June 25, 2012 by dgermann

This lawyer has soft edges. :- Doug.

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A special couple

Posted on June 11, 2012 by dgermann

  In 1998 I was attending a continuing legal education seminar in Indianapolis, and it was the first time I had been downtown since the new Center City Mall had opened, so I decided to go there for lunch.   … Continue reading →

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How much caring is there?

Posted on June 6, 2012 by dgermann

There are tragedies out there in health care. In a world that says it is about care, how much caring is there? :- Doug.

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Have you had the end of life conversation?

Posted on June 5, 2012 by dgermann

Have you had the end of life conversation? If not, when? How will you begin? Whom do you love enough to have the conversation? Whom among your clients and patients do you love enough to help get this conversation started? … Continue reading →

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The right answer to aging?

Posted on May 17, 2012 by dgermann

What is the right answer to aging? What is the right answer to caring for your parents? :- Doug.

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What does it mean to be a burden?

Posted on May 16, 2012 by dgermann

What about caring with you would be a burden? What does it mean to be a burden? Was it a burden to change your children’s diapers? :- Doug.

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Vending machine picture of law

Posted on May 14, 2012 by dgermann

Many times we have a vending machine picture of law: put in a coin, out comes a certain result, predictably. Time by time we find we are in a flowing stream with 10,000 variables floating past, each can touch us, … Continue reading →

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Elder caring is like running the East Race

Posted on May 13, 2012 by dgermann

Elder caring is like running the East Race. I do not know how it will come out. It is different each time. :- Doug.

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Working with caring people

Posted on May 7, 2012 by dgermann

I work with caring people some of whom are elders of our tribe :- Doug.

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Affording you as client

Posted on April 25, 2012 by dgermann

If at the start you have to ask what a service will cost, maybe I cannot afford you as a client. Maybe you are so hung up on money that you will be blinded to doing what you need. That … Continue reading →

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Have you ever met anyone…?

Posted on April 19, 2012 by dgermann

Have you ever met anyone else whose work is elder conversations? These conversations run the range from how to live well within the budget and family we have, to how to live the last chapter of our lives. They often … Continue reading →

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to remind me

Posted on April 19, 2012 by dgermann

I call myself an Elder Caring Attorney to remind me to be caring. :- Doug.

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Room for us professionals to be more than technicians

Posted on April 18, 2012 by dgermann

There is room for us as professionals to be more than technicians. There is still a role for us to be compassionate. You can make a difference. You can be kind and caring. Perhaps that’s why you got into this … Continue reading →

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Alzheimer’s: modern Magellans?

Posted on April 10, 2012 by dgermann

“Right up to the last minute,” Joelle said to me “the soul has work to do” Weeks later her words lead me to ask What if it were more opening than disease this Alzheimer’s & these our tribe’s explorers? What … Continue reading →

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Endings are beginnings

Posted on April 7, 2012 by dgermann

Endings are beginnings :- Doug.

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