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Carol Bradley Bursack

Carol Bradley Bursack

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Author, blogger and eldercare columnist
posted 11/12/2008, comments (8)

Engage With Grace Provides Valuable Tool for End-of-Life Discussion

In many ways I was fortunate as I made decisions about my parents deaths. My mother's sister and her husband were ten years older than my parents. They came out to the prairie to live near us, their only family, as aging and health problems took over their lives. We helped them through the death process. During this time, my parents made out... Read moreChevron
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Carol Bradley Bursack

Carol Bradley Bursack

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Author, blogger and eldercare columnist
posted 10/27/2008, comments (6)

A Book To Spark Conversation and Thought about the Dying Process

We will all die. If there is any one truth, that is it. Our culture has, in my opinion, done its best to ignore this fact and pretend we can avoid, through medical intervention and even through our obsession with youth, this basic fact of life. We will all die.   In the end, this inability of our culture to accept death as part of the life... Read moreChevron
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Leah

Leah

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has vascular dementia
posted 02/07/2008, comments (10)

Living Wills: Make Them Early, While You Still Can

My mind has been wrapped around the word competent lately. It is an especially important word to someone with dementia. Webster's dictionary defines competent as "having enough ability to do what is needed; capable". The key word here is capable. In regards to dementia, whether one is considered capable or not may differ from person... Read moreChevron
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