When I was a younger professional, and just after receiving my Master’s Degree, I took a position as a therapist in a group home for seriously mentally ill, criminal adolescents.…
Author: Dr. Jim Collins
Traumatic Loss: What it is and How to Recover
A fatal accident. Another teen takes his or her life. A heroin overdose. The victim of a drive-by shooting. Another high school massacre. No one anticipates these and no one…
Psychosocial Care
Nursing care, passing medication, nutrition and hydration and physical and occupational therapy are all necessary components of good care. What goes on between these aspects of care is also very…
Alzheimer’s Disease: The Result of the Brain Trying to Protect Itself
Another trip to the bookstore; another stack of books purchased and ready to be consumed. This trip yields books on gut health, eating to avoid dementia, and of course, Alzheimer’s…
Aging with HIV
Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV is the retrovirus that causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). It was identified in the 1980s and I remember it well. I was a teenager who…
Managing Multiple Sclerosis in Senior Care
Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic, disabling and progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects the brain and the spinal cord. It is characterized as an autoimmune, inflammatory and demyelinating of the brain…