Category Archives: Long-Term Care and nursing homes
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.
100 McDonald’s
100 McDonald’s = 109 nursing homes (2016 data). It seems we’re lovin’ more than Mickey D. :- Doug.
Don’t keep people safe!
I don’t want a nursing home to keep people alive: for goodness’ sake, don’t keep people safe: rather keep people lively. :- Doug.
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
Jellies, jams, preserves
Medicaid is like Grandma’s choices for putting up fruit: jellies, jams, and preserves. Elder caring lawyers concentrate on preserves: preserving the most of the fruits of your life’s work. :- Doug.
Woodpecker is tapping
This chill winter day a little woodpecker is climbing the little maple tree, tapping at it. A cardinal flies off quickly to another tree. You live here all year, this is home. The robins and others migrate away in colder … Continue reading
Long-term caring
Long-term caring means centering on the survival of the species. :- Doug.
Families in crisis
We help families in crisis get help to pay for care in a nursing home or at home. :- Doug.
Play in nursing homes
Some of us might be confined to nursing homes: that does not inhibit our playfulness. We can still, reflect and see larger, converse and grow. :- Doug.
Boring places
Boring places: nursing homes. Stimulation free. Done to and for. No initiative enlisted. No art work. No Kaffeeklatsch. No conversation. No reminiscing nor reflection. No classes nor learning. No children. Few animals. No interaction. Factory-style arrangement to dispense meds, diapers, … Continue reading
Crisis Medicaid readiness
Crisis Medicaid readiness is how we help. :- Doug.
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Not too much
Be safe, but not too much. :- Doug.
Safety is a sales pitch
Safety is a sales pitch to adult children. :- Doug.
Crisis of nursing home
We help families through the crisis of nursing home and Medicaid. :- Doug.