Hi everyone. This is a response to an article I had written in a recent newsletter called “Overcoming Communication Issues Between Doctors and Seniors”. Greg is one of our dear readers who has cared for his 81 year old mother for many years. As a...
Living with anybody for a prolonged period of time can have its ups and downs, certainly. Just ask anyone who has been married. There are the great times and there are less than great times. That, of course, is the basis of continuing to build a strong...
I stumbled across Barbara Parentini on Twitter (see how great social media is) and found this lovely poem dealing with dementia on her website: Gifts By Grace. I asked if I could share it with you and she kindly granted permission. A Life Unraveled...
Well, I just returned from court where I needed to appear in order to end the conservatorship that I had obtained for my father. I was both a guardian and conservator for him and whereas a guardianship automatically ends at death, a conservatorship does not. There...
Is it really possible to become happier just by deciding you can? I’ve been thinking a lot about that lately. When books such as The Secret by Rhonda Byrne and The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren became so popular, I began to study them and to consider that...