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Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
As a caregiver, I look at the old person and wonder how to get what is stagnant moving again. When I was growing up in Oklahoma, a bowl of cherries meant summer. Cherry pies came Read more…
Aging in Society
Many Strokes for Different Folks
A few years ago I consulted with a family in California. The son’s 90 year old mother was at the end of her life with heart failure, but she didn’t want to go to assisted Read more…
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Beyond the Names of Things
I was a long distance caregiver to my father. I lived in Vermont where my son was in high school. My father lived in California with my step mother who gave him great care. But Read more…
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A Caregiving Memory: One Thing My Father Showed Me
Even though I had worked with frail old people for many years, before I became a long distance caregiver to my father, he was the one who taught me the most about caregiving. Our relationship Read more…