Functional Ability is Destiny at the End
This important article by Dr. Dhruv Khullar in the New York Times offers new insights from data mining about a critical tipping point for older adults who drift beyond having chronic illnesses to also...
View ArticleAnd Take My Waking Slow….
The Waking Theodore Roethke (1954) I Wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. We think by feeling. What is there… The post...
View ArticleIf I Die First…
Aging parents face an uneven future in which one will be left behind. FD Reeves’ poem “Home in Wartime” contains two elegant and inspiring stanzas of instructions for both possibilities… From “Home in...
View ArticleCommunicating Tough Choices. Booklet (pdf)
Introduction At some point in the lives of our aging parents things slip out of control. It may be a subtle change over time that finally becomes unmanageable or the sudden arrival of a medical...
View ArticleAnother Caregiver Dilemma: Aging Parent Kicked Out Of Assisted Living Residence
Fact: Caregiving dilemmas beget new caregiving dilemmas. Just when you have succeeded in placing an aging parent in an assisted living residence and things are working out, a change in “health status”...
View ArticleNew PDF Booklet: Conversations Near The End
“We wish it didn’t come to this, but it does. Someone you care about is at the end of their life. No one knows exactly when but everyone is clear about what’s happening. Now comes the hard part, the...
View ArticleDavid Solie’s Complimentary Booklets for Caregivers
So far, I have created five (5) booklets for caregivers and their families. I have two more in the works. All five are complimentary, available in a PDF format and can be ordered using the form...
View ArticleEnd of the road: Doctors need to begin the conversation much earlier
Read full article here This article from BCC.com highlights the need for doctors to begin the end of life conversations much earlier in the process to help their patients cope with this unavidabe...
View ArticleThe Dreaded Outcome Boomers Never Envisioned
Nursing homes are one of the top three dreaded outcomes that Boomers fear the most. The other two are Alzheimer’s disease and cancer, a trifecta of destinies they hope to be spared from at the end of...
View ArticleWe will never allow isolation to carry the day…
In his article, Coronavirus requires physical distance in end-of-life care. But we won’t let isolation prevail, Rev. Thomas Ryberg, a chaplain resident at Albany Med in Albany,...
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