Category Archives: Long-Term Care and nursing homes
warehouses to hotbeds
Let’s move retirement facilities from being warehouses to hotbeds of meaning and purpose. :- Doug.
Help to pay
We get people help to pay for long-term care. :- Doug.
A quiet little
We have a quiet little law practice in elder caring: we provide powers of assistance, get court permission for you to act for your loved one, and find you help to pay for home and nursing care. :- Doug.
Choose several:
Five and one-half ways to pay for long-term care: ideally you choose several. :- Doug.
A quiet little elder caring law practice
We have a quiet little elder caring law practice caring for people caring for their family. For instance, we help these ways: —Powers of assistance, if it’s soon enough —If it is later, Judge signed licenses to care for (They … Continue reading
The know/kill observation
The know/kill observation means nursing homes. We do kill each other by ignoring the resident and killing his or her life; we do kill ourselves by making people into projects, into things, and losing our life in the process. :- … Continue reading
Nursing home burnout and turnover
It must be difficult especially for a woman as caregiver to acculturate to the numbers and schedules of a nursing home. Carefamily wants to plump the pillow and hold the hand as well as dispense the meds. What a mismatch … Continue reading
Rhythms in a nursing home
There are rhythms of life in say a nursing home. The rhythms are like languages where people cannot understand one another. There is the long flowing beat of the older, the staccato of the staff. :- Doug.
the further we advance
The further we advance into persons the more activity (conversation) among them we discover. The closer we look the more restless and dynamic the picture. People cannot be separated from their correlations. The more we confine them (such as in … Continue reading
What did they expect?
What did they expect? Ask them. Get clear. For instance, getting sick and not having to call upon their purse or family for help? First, seek the best quality of life. Maybe we can conserve or regroup resources and income. … Continue reading
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most caring front line people?
Who are the most caring front line people you know? Who is doing something a little special? :- Doug.
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Midwestern sensibilities?
What are our Midwestern sensibilities about how we ought to treat our elders? About what respect is due them? We are not just a conduit for the corporate flavor of the month, but we can be a conduit to affect … Continue reading
Long-term care decisions
I help people with long-term care decisions so they don’t worry. :- Doug.
Have you fallen into the common trap
Have you fallen into the common trap of safety, helplessness, and boredom? were these living people here I’d take the side of the breakable pot against the children who seek to protect their mothers from life and imagination we’ve no … Continue reading
How does life differ
How does life differ in the residential wing of the nursing home from life in the rehabilitative wing? :- Doug.