Category Archives: Eldering
Working with caring people
I work with caring people some of whom are elders of our tribe :- Doug.
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Thinking clearly with our hearts.
Thinking clearly with our hearts. :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness
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Rounding out our lives together?
How may we yet Be about Rounding our lives together? :- Doug.
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A terrible thing to waste
It’s a terrible thing to waste our elders. :- Doug.
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Our elders: a resource we’re wasting.
Our elders: a resource we’re wasting. :- Doug.
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What can we find?
What can we find in elder conversation? :- Doug.
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Retirement: bringing family closer
There is another image coming for me today: retirement, our own later years, turning them purposely toward bringing family closer together. We work and play with these our family members, children, grandchildren, sister, brother, individually and together. With renewed intention … Continue reading
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I am not the expert
I am not the expert. I am not here to teach you anything. You are the experts. You will teach—and invent me and each other. :- Doug.
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Financial planning these days….
Much financial planning these days is grounded in an unstated end game of self sufficiency. It’s all about me. We will not rely upon our children in our retirement, we will do what we want. We will not even involve … Continue reading
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Long-term care is not about who pays but how we choose to live.
Long-term care is not about who pays but how we choose to live. :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Eldering, Long-Term Care and nursing homes
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Curing, healing, dementia, play
Though I cannot cure you, I can help heal you, restore you to play. Can those with dementia play? Do we have the love to play with them? To learn from them? :- Doug.
Family Council: something begins
One purpose of Family Council is to open space for inspired, workable next steps, in a setting where We is more important than Do, in a setting where the next steps are confused. Something begins. :- Doug.
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Alzheimer’s: modern Magellans?
“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