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What makes a skilled care institution a place where people want to live and where people want to work? What puts the home back into nursing home? Almost 25 years ago when I was a grad student I did a single case study of the Mt. St Vincent, a long-time Seattle skilled care community inContinue reading “Moving Mountains at the Mt. St Vincent”

Are all nursing homes bad? Of course not. Are there exemplary nursing homes? Absolutely! The question is then, why would so many people with major disabilities and illness prefer almost anything else to a nursing home, perhaps even a hastened death? Obviously there is no one answer to this. I again use the Person-in-Environment fitContinue reading “Who wants to spend the last year of life in a nursing home?”

Savvy Women Exchanging Relevant Views (SWERVE) is superb. Thank you all for an engaged, experienced, and lively audience. More signed books are available at the Waterfront Community Center, University Bookstore, and Eagle Harbor Books. Remember, I’m honored to speak to your book group and happy to provide at least one free book. Plus there areContinue reading “Savvy Women are super!”

I was out of town when this appeared on tv, but here it is–nice and short.

I would be delighted to see you at my talk at the Seattle University Unitarian Church on Monday, June 15 at 11 am. Talks r us!

Check out kcts9.org/programs/in-close/life-culture/it.takes-village# I thought they did a good job Jeannette from Sicily (with iffy WiFi)

Money isn’t a dirty word Money isn’t a dirty word, although in my family it was considered impolite to bring it up, mention how much something cost, or say how much daddy or mommy earned (and the huge discrepancy between those two earnings). I came of age in the 60s and valued love, peace, music,Continue reading “Money is not a dirty word”

Since this talk is sponsored by the NW Universal Design Council, you could rightly guess that one factor that can contribute significantly to aging in place (i.e. staying out of a nursing home) is Universal Design. Universal Design is often defined as products and environments that are usable by all people to the greatest extentContinue reading “Please join me at my talk “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” (7 ways to stay out of a nursing home) Thursday, April 9, 10 am, at the Seattle Municipal Tower, Room 4050-4060. Free and open to the public.”

7 ways to minimize the possibility of spending the last year of your life in a nursing home Universal Design, much more to say about that and I will soon! Money—lots and lots of money Connection with family, friends, and community Sense of contribution, participation, and meaning A Village, specifically http://www.vtvnetwork.org Super thighs: quads ofContinue reading “7 ways to stay out of a nursing home”

So, you want to tell your aging parents they should move. Good luck with that! Instead, tell them about the Village to Village Network because it takes a village to age in place. http://www.vtvnetwork.org. Last Saturday the BI Senior and Community Center hosted a well-presented 4-hour community discussion on creating our own village, an infrastructureContinue reading “What to do when your adult children say ‘you should move’ (or if you’re the one saying mom, you should move).”