Be a lamp, a lifeboat or a ladder….
Be a lamp, a lifeboat or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd…Rumi…
David Solie’s Complimentary Booklets for Caregivers
So far, I have created five (5) booklets for caregivers and their families. I have two more in the works. All five are complimentary, available in a PDF format and can be ordered using the form below.
Here is a…
New PDF Booklet: Conversations Near The End
“We wish it didn’t come to this, but it does. Someone you care about is at the end of their life. No one knows exactly when but everyone is clear about what’s happening. Now comes the hard part, the conversations…
Another Caregiver Dilemma: Aging Parent Kicked Out Of Assisted Living Residence
Fact: Caregiving dilemmas beget new caregiving dilemmas. Just when you have succeeded in placing an aging parent in an assisted living residence and things are working out, a change in “health status” suddenly disqualifies him or her from staying there. …
No Good Can Ever Come From It
Like the unforeseen and unavoidable forces of the avalanche that wounded this mountainside, life delivers its own set of deep wounds that leave all of us barren and scarred. And when this happens, we are sure that no good can…
Quick Start: 6 Tips for Talking With Aging Parents About Senior Care
If your’re unsure how to initiate this delicate conversation with your aging parents, this new article from Benchmark Senior Living, is a “quick start” based on my work and experience in communicating with olde adults. It offers an overarching view…
The Pull Of What You Really Love…
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love…Rumi
This is one of my recent paintings and I thought the quote by Rumi was apropos for describing my long-delayed return to painting after decades of…
Healthy Eighty-Something Parents Don’t Want To Talk About It
Of course the “it” is about moving at some point out of their home. The adult children want to get a head star at investigation senior living options with their parents before new accommodations are actually needed, But attempts to…
Sorting Out Aging Parent’s Situations and Issues: Start With A Graphic Overview of “All The Moving Parts”
In our work with older adults and their families, we find that a graphic overview (aka mind map)of the “moving parts” of their situation or issue helps everyone better understand its context as well as possible steps that could be…
When despair for the world grows in me…
The title of this blog is the first line from a Wendell Berry poem. He is without question one of my favorite modern poets. I chose this stanza because caregiving has it share of despair as events and outcomes do…