I marvel at our health care system from moment to moment. We can diagnosis dementia and Deng Fever with equal ease and accuracy. At the same time the partitioned and fractured system of delivery channels and professionals almost guarantees a suffocating level of complexity and confusion. It really doesn't have to be and in... Read more
If my mom were here today I wouldn't do too much differently than I ever did on Mother's Day but I would do the things I did more intently and with greater deliberateness and add some things:
I would call her earlier instead of on my way home from somewhere as an afterthought.
I would not forget that she hates cut flowers and... Read more
If you substitute the aging of America for hurricane Katrina and substitute every city in the country with New Orleans you will have an idea of what the aging of America is going to do to the political, financial, and municipal structure of cities and towns as we go forward. Just as with the Katrina situation any help from the states and... Read more
When I was growing up my grandmother was the pianist at a little Methodist Church in Bluefield, West Virginina. Every summer when my brother and I would visit her we would inevitably come when they were having something called Vacation Bible School. At VBS, in the Methodist Church anyway, we would go in the morning, sing some worshipful songs,... Read more
One of the first things you come to realize as a care giver is that the minutes go by much faster than before. It becomes very apparent very quickly that merely good intentions to get something done is not enough. This is never more true than when your own family and responsibilities seem to be coming a distant second to the care giver role.... Read more
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