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Category Archives: End-of-life
Creosote and Calico?
Sensory pleasures are individual and based in our history and heritage. It is sensory pleasures that enrich our offices, homes, sick rooms. As we encounter illness, it is often the sensory pleasures that define “comfort”. In the continuing exploration of … Continue reading
The ABC’s of Sensory Preferences
Each of us has our own unique fingerprint as well as our own unique sensory preferences. With our fingerprint, we can be universally identified often for less than positive reasons. With our unique sensory preferences we can be universally pleased … Continue reading
Margaret Thatcher & Dementia
Stigma is a term used to describe a societal mark of shame or discredit. As individuals with dementia speak out they are relating the difficulties of living with their diagnoses in a society that sees it as a discredit or … Continue reading
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Confusion–Whose Reality?
The average individual entering memory care has a standard Living Will that does not delineate any range of choice as their cognitive and physical health changes. The standard Living Will covers extreme situations but not any interim changes that often … Continue reading
Death Dowry
This may be a mis-nomer—but it comes from the reality that there are things we relish and deny ourselves throughout life. Perhaps it’s legitimate to purchase, embrace, plan some of these things for our final days. This came to me … Continue reading
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Tagged dowry, Jefferson, psychosocial care plan
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Chicken Legs and Bud Light
Today was a final farewell to a beloved member of my eldercare community. She came to us reluctantly from independent living with higher health needs then they could manage. Happy hour was the daily norm for her. Bud Light was … Continue reading
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