Aging in Place: The Loss Of My Dad’s Glasses Still Haunts Me
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. -Euripides I recently posted a “best-of” (retread) blog titled: The Meaning of Things to make a point that meaningful objects from home lose meaning in institutions like nursing homes. When bloggers share ideas/concepts/stories on the net, we can only hope—like sending children off to school, they will do good in the world or have some positive influence. This post evoked a response I will always remember—and made my point more eloquently and personally than any of my efforts may have engendered.
Contact: [email protected] Welcome, my name is Patrick Roden creator of aginginplace.com My interest in aging began early as I crawled around the floors of the nursing home where my grandmother was the head nurse. This imprinting set me on course to become a nurse and spend over two decades taking care of patients and their families; and now focusing on environmental gerontology. In 2000 I purchased the domain aginginplace.com with the goal of creating a global resource for people who desire aging in the safety and comfort of home (wherever they call home). After decades of
"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home." - Phyllis Diller Often parents don’t want to "burden" adult children; and those same adult children are caught between trying to help, yet not insult parents by asking questions about how they are getting along day-to-day; it can be a touchy situation. The "Aging in Place in America" study commissioned by Clarity® and The EAR Foundation, examined seniors' and
"People usually are the happiest at home" -William Shakespeare Aging in place: Key Ingredients Emotional Ingredients "Place attachment" is the preference for home caused by a bond developed through experiences over time. The deeper meaning of home is built from: Home as a social center for family and friends to gather Home as a source of pride in ownership, social status, joy, and feelings of "rootedness" Home as a source of independence and stability in the midst of loss and change related
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire. -Teilhard De Chardin An old Proverb states that true love never grows old; I got some evidence of that in the gym today. My facility is what was once called an “iron gym,” the kind of place where you heard loud grunts and the pungent odor of stale socks lingered in the air like thick LA smog. And you can