Covid & Culture Change
The people working in nursing homes do not need blame right now. They do need supplies, encouragement, and love.
Continue ReadingThe people working in nursing homes do not need blame right now. They do need supplies, encouragement, and love.
Continue ReadingI had hoped, with the current focus on healthcare workers as heroes, that the demonizing of nursing homes would cease during the pandemic.
Continue ReadingResidents are well known at Carol Woods Retirement Community. But there is a difference between being well known and being celebrated. Residents, employee and family care partners of the Building 6 and 7 assisted living neighborhood at Carol Woods are striving toward the latter. Kay, a resident, explains: We want to be, not a family, […]
Continue ReadingFrom an Oxycontin haze, I hear the death chant from a 90-something neighbor, three doors down the hall. The screams pierce every bone in my body and continues for hours.
Continue ReadingAfter 14 years fighting to maintain some shred of autonomy and home in assisted living facilities in New York and Pennsylvania, Martin Bayne is being evicted from his current assisted living. His next stop will be an “indeterminate stay” at a short-term rehab facility in a local CCRC.
Continue ReadingAfter 14 years fighting to maintain some shred of autonomy and home in assisted living facilities in New York and Pennsylvania, Martin Bayne is being evicted from his current home tomorrow with no alternative arrangement yet determined.
Continue ReadingOn February 4, 1974, the night Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, I was a 23-year-old Soto Zen Buddhist monastic novitiate, studying under the auspices of Reverend Master Jiyu Kennett, Roshi of Shasta Abbey, Mt. Shasta, California.
Continue ReadingWhen my mother reached the age of 100, I had to place her in a nursing home.
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