May 21, 2023 | End-of-Life, Uncategorized, Your Parent's Hospitalization
Three years ago, my father and I rode horses together for miles and miles of trails at a Florida state park. Two weeks after that, the world shut down and two years later, he died. His dying was my first very close-up experience with serious illness and death. If...
May 29, 2022 | Assisted Living, Common Challenges, Feeling Overwhelmed, Paying for Care, Uncategorized, Your Parent's Hospitalization
Americans have a love affair with hospitals. We tend to think of doctors and nurses as the people who were working hard to make good grades while the rest of us were skipping class. I am pretty sure my brilliant, doctor friend Heather was walking around with a...
Apr 23, 2022 | Assisted Living, Common Challenges, Home Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Paying for Care, Resources, Uncategorized, Your Parent's Hospitalization
Most of us take for granted that we can get out of bed in the morning and do all the things necessary to head out and face our day. You know… the simple everyday things like moving around our house, showering, getting dressed and eating breakfast. I might be a...
Aug 4, 2021 | Medicare, Your Parent's Hospitalization
You’ve navigated your frail parent’s hospital stay and now it’s time to go home. You probably can’t wait to leave but …what’s coming next is extremely uncertain. Leaving a hospital with a frail older adult in tow is like stepping off a cliff blindfolded. This...
Jul 1, 2021 | Medicare, Your Parent's Hospitalization
It always comes as a shock to me that being likeable doesn’t solve all my problems. In my mind, being accommodating is the key to being likable. Of course, the problem with this thinking is that occasionally all that pent up accommodation and desire to be...