Book Review
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Bob T.
Another wonderful book that I highly recommend is Carol Bradley Bursack’s “Minding Our Elders."Back when I was the frazzled son of an aging mother with dementia (d ...
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My Learning Curve
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Bob T.
Just when I thought I knew who my audience was, I discovered a group that I hadn’t consciously considered before. Here’s what happened. I was asked to speak about ...
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Hospice: The Journey’s End
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Bob T.
Hospice is one of the really humane programs in a health care system that sometimes seems to be more dollar oriented than patient oriented.As a health care executive, I was ac ...
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The Day She Tried To Eat The Mirror!
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Bob T.
Let me describe a typical nursing home visit toward the end of Millie's life. It was the end of lunchtime. Mom was asleep in her wheelchair with a half finished plate of puree ...
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What? Take Away My Car.....!!!!
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Bob T.
In the September 2003 issue of the AARP Bulletin, John Eberhard, former senior research psychologist at the National Highway Safety Administration, wrote, “Telling senio ...
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When A Parent Has Nine Lives
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Bob T.
Something occurred to me after writing the last post about my mother’s 93rd birthday. I recalled a conversation she and I had when she was in her late 70’s and the ...
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When Life Is No Longer A Joy
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Bob T.
While Mom passed away some time ago, I recall her 93rd birthday. Once or twice before reaching that milestone she seemed to finally be getting ready to leave us but, each time ...
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More on the Caregiver's Conference
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Bob T.
The purpose of this conference was to educate and support an audience of caregivers who were struggling, largely in isolation, with all sorts of issues, and to provide an oppo ...
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