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The authors of a neat little organizer titled, "Putting Things in Order: A Journal to Organize Your Life for the Next Generation," sent me their top ten list of things to do so you can be organized with the paperwork you want your heirs to have. Before I tell you about their book, here's the list as written by authors Ellen Baumritter and David Finkle:
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Then they giggle and – kiss. Yikes! Aren’t they kind of old for that? Our society has marginalized people over fifty when it comes to love and sex.
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She's just being nice and thinks I'm "sweet." But would she call a twenty-something woman "Hon?" I doubt it.
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States and counties already have rating systems for a wide variety of inspections which are done on a regular basis, at least in my area. The results of these inspections are available to the public, so, out of curiosity, I've looked up, on the Web, the ratings of homes I know well. Often, I've been shocked to find that they have "deficiencies."
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Often the adult children need to travel south to handle emergencies. This causes problems with jobs and young kids at home. So they beg their parents to come back home. The parents balk. This is my home, now. I don’t want to leave my friends. I don’t want to leave my church. I don’t want to live in the cold and risk a fall on the ice.
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My sister was told that her colleague's mother, who was viewing the program, had said to the adult child, "Lawrence Welk looks wonderful. He just doesn't age!" To her, Lawrence Welk is alive and well and not aging, since she's seeing him on television.
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She'd walk and walk and walk and then see a chair and sit and say, "I'm sooo tired." Then she'd get up and start walking again. The staff, friends - any of us - would sit by her or walk by her and say, "Of course you're tired, Hazel
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The medics took him into surgery to repair the hip and then Joe spent a horrible week in the hospital, hallucinating and shaking from withdrawal in addition to the expected pain of the broken hip.
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Yahoo News recently ran an article by AP writer Kevin Freking titled, "Nursing homes cut back on restraints." I addressed...
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