Is There Skilled Nursing Care? This is a question to raise when you are choosing a place to spend your final years. In fact, the question is fundamental to the issue of a secure future. Living in a retirement community will not cure your diabetes or your osteoarthritis. It will not even guarantee that you […]
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Here in the place where I live, the population is old. That’s the nature of life in a retirement village. But none of us were always old. We have been places and done things. We have stories to tell. Lately I have been asked by several different groups to talk about what is happening in […]
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Will I Get the Healthcare I Need? Part Two (The names in this article are fictitious, while the characters and their experiences are real, though sometimes disguised.) There are things an elder care community cannot do for its residents. Especially, it cannot take the place of family, not even in the realm of health […]
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