hospice

When heaven opens it's doors so go the windows.

I'm either helping them live or helping them die. That's my job. After 20 years in this business and countless hospice patients I have...

Beware of "10 years experience"

This industry is largely unregulated. If you know someone or someone at an agency then you have a job. It doesn't take much to take care...

Book Shelf

Atul Gawande, MD wrote a fantastic book called "Being Mortal". It ponders all sorts of aging situations and their medical predicaments. ...

Mental health checkups should be mandatory.

Mental health is the silent tool. I honestly and firmly believe that all caregivers should be given a mental health check up regularly....

Expiration date?

How many times have I heard someone say "When am I going to die?" "What is taking so long, what am I hanging on for? I want to doie I'm...

V8, Get it Right

Let's see if I can put together another entry. Here I sit, happily, taking care of my next charge. Unusually, she is very with it, very...

Mom in a Nursing Home, from "to be continued"

Update from "to be continued" from the FTD post. It became apparent that since her new "team" of caregivers had fallen apart that we had...