Oh, how things have changed! It wasn’t but ten years ago that I wrote a book on person-centered care and was both celebrated and laughed at by professionals in the…
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Caregiver Resilience
Why is it that some caregivers of elderly people experience stress, burnout and other physical and psychological problems, but others experience high satisfaction and positive returns of caregiving? This topic…
Reflections on Person Centered Care - Part 1
Several years ago, I wrote a book entitled “The Person-Centered Way: Revolutionizing Quality of Life in Long-Term Care”. It came out right as the concept of person-centered was just becoming…
Working with the Non-Compliant Patient
The very word “non-compliant” has a negative connotation to it and sounds like this individual should be punished for something he or she did or did not do. Actually, non-compliance…
Caregiver, Care for Thyself
My mother was a professional caregiver in senior care for 30 years and it took a toll on her body and sometimes emotions. I saw it firsthand. Bad knees, varicose…
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: An Introduction
Some people call Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Lou Gehrig’s Disease or simply ALS. Whatever it’s called, ALS is a devastating and terminal neurodegenerative disease that has a highly predictable clinical course.…