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When Mom Died
With mom on hospice services and the clock running out, I hold vigil at her bedside and watched her breathe. In and out. There is comfort in that. The breath you felt on your arm, your cheek, the top of your head, that security blanket of coziness is the only thing I...
It is all in the Attitude
The billion dollar anti-aging industry preys on our cultural biases of aging. Denying and defying the natural course of aging is more the cultural norm than flowing naturally into our golden years. We are programmed by marketers and healthcare to associate old age with decline, disease, and rocking chair days. And it is those same marketers and healthcare industries that come up with consumer products to ‘fight’ the aging war they have defined.
Live Well Today
“The secret to change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new”
– Socrates
Hospice nurses have profound insights about life that most of us are not privy to, until our last days. These nurses who minister to the dying witness and listen to their tearful regrets, their last wishes, and their most intimate feelings. Last wishes often revolve around the topic that they know is the only one worth their last thoughts and breath: love of self and others.
Age Well Today
“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
– Betty Friedan
Our perception and definition of ‘old’, as we Ahem!—age—is a moving target. When I was twelve, for example, I thought my grandparents were really, really old. They were probably in their late 60’s early 70’s. Today, according to my moveable time table, that age range is not old at all! Hey the 60’s is a time to reinvent, make things happen, have fun, and enjoy life!
Age Well Today
What if I told you the way you look at things will change your reality? Huh? I know, right?! Kind of a mind-twister.
The World of Health Care has Changed
“The hospital of the future in your living room” – Jeff Huber, CEO Home Instead Senior Care While most wait for life to change back to ‘normal’ after COVID-19, there are some of us in the healthcare field that realize that while some things will eventually return to a...