The Kindness of Strangers
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Who’s up for a round of good news? I’ll go first.
Yesterday I took an elderly neighbor grocery shopping with me, as I occasionally do since she can’t get around alone.
My outings with her are a bit comical because the lady is a little deaf, mostly blind from macular degeneration, and has the creaking limbs of advancing age.
None of that is laughable of course, but she’s also spunky as can be and... READ MORE
Alive Inside
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Thursday, April 12, 2012
“Beautiful” and “amazing” are over-used words, but they’re all I can come up with to describe this clip from a forthcoming documentary about the effect of music on the elderly.
Watch and weep, but in a good way!
Who Cares for Caregivers?
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Monday, June 20, 2011
A reader writes:
“I am writing you to ask about any Catholic bloggers out there who address caregiving of others. My mother is the sole caretaker of my father who is in the moderate/severe stage of Alzheimers where he can still speak, but he cannot
finish a sentence on the phone. He does not remember and he has whole libraries of books that he has forgotten.
My mother is a devout Catholic and would... READ MORE
Oldest Man Meets Newest Baby
Posted by Danielle Bean in Just me on Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Here you go. A Coke commercial that will make you cry. In a good way, of course. Except if you’re a man and you are silly enough to think there is no “good way” to cry. Either way, watch!
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