by Debbie Pearson | Jan 19, 2017 | Health Care
It’s complicated. Coming up with the right placement options when you loved one needs more help, and it’s important to get it right. The big challenge in evaluating placement alternatives is that most of you come to this decision point with a blank slate. You or your...
by Debbie Pearson | Jan 12, 2017 | Health Care
Want to silence a room? Ask an elderly person about their funeral wishes and watch their family take a collective gasp and shrink back in fear. After hundreds and hundreds of patient assessments, this continues to be a predictable moment. It seems the closer you get...
by Debbie Pearson | Jan 5, 2017 | Health Care
Don’t tell me about the delivery. Just show me the baby. No need for the whole story. No desire for a play-by-play of every minute detail. Just the bottom line, the end-result. I don’t know when things morphed, but an advantage I have at my age is the ability to...
by Debbie Pearson | Dec 15, 2016 | Health Care
After decades of exhausting yourself to find unique gifts for your elderly relatives, look no further. You and the memories of what you bring are now at the very top of the “most perfect gift” list. YOU are the greatest holiday gift to the elderly! Think about it,...
by Debbie Pearson | Dec 1, 2016 | Health Care
What would possess you to ask a one-arm man to clap his hands? You wouldn’t, of course! It’s obvious that you’d be asking the impossible. However, we ask people to do the impossible all the time, not taking into account what is possible for the individual. There is no...
by Debbie Pearson | Nov 24, 2016 | Health Care
As my father aged and his peers started dying, he changed his farewell salutation from “have a nice day” to “don’t fall down.” There was a good reason for this. First-hand experience taught him that falling down often resulted in a hip fracture, anesthesia and...
