Home Alone

and that I have a gift. This gift, the ability to care for others when they are no longer able to care for themselves, is what made the decision to move my father-in-law, Harald, into our home an easy one. After being hospitalized several times over the last year, sending Harald back to his apartment -- alone and unable to fully care for himself was not an option. After-all, he was able to get around, with the assistance of a walker. While Harald needed lots of other…

loaded, and down by one run is both a baseball player’s most glorious dream and most onerous nightmare. This dream was my opportunity as I stepped up to the plate in the Delaware Regional Senior League championship game. The few metal bleachers near home plate at Leroy Hill Park were packed with families from all around Delaware, meanwhile those without a space set up lawn chairs around the outfield fence. Every single person at the field, whether they have played baseball since they 6 years…

GirlChild is a fiction novel written by Tupelo Hassman. The setting takes place in the dirty roads of the Calle de la Flores, a bunch of trailer homes making it a trailer park, uniting all people that live there the same, outside the small town of Reno, Nevada in the 1980s. This well known novel is about a young girl that shares her life story that comes with many struggles and obstacles. One of the main Character is Rory Dawn Hendrix. She is the young girl that this novel is mainly about.…

let us take a look into what homeschooling really is and some history on why traditional public schools became the custom. Homeschooling is simply, educating one’s child at home rather than in a formal traditional setting. Educating your child at home use to be part of the norm, back in 1840, 45% of children were taught at home or by…

is whose hands are so gnarled by arthritis, she cannot dress or turn the knob on her kitchen stove. She is keenly alert, but she may wind up in a nursing home anyway, at a tab of $60,000 a year, because there is no way she can live alone. The widow and her grown children are shocked to discover that Medicare won't pay for her care in a nursing home. Only when she impoverishes herself,…

communication, 03/27/12). An example of disengagement theory if an older adult who has heart disease may develop shortness of breath may be unable to continue daily walks with their friends. The older adult will develop less contact with friends which may lead to fading friendships. Another example of disengagement theory if when a retired career women experience loss of social network and self-satisfaction of work. Aging-related that impacts an older adult’s cultural, for example, is the…

one pitch, and one swing of the bat. On Tuesday, September 8th, a ball is hit and leaves the field over the left field wall. Just like that, the history of the game is changed. On that day Mark Mcgwire broke the MLB single season home run record, surpassing Maris’s 61 home runs. On that tuesday, emotions of baseball fans were at new heights. Many people were celebrating the momentous…

Elderly Abuse Abuse is a serious crime that happens every day, but little do many realize that there is such a thing called elderly abuse among us. We tend to think that the staff and the elderly patients in the facilities, as we call them residents, wouldn’t create any harmful attacks on a resident that one may love the most. There are multiple types of abuse such as physical, sexual, neglect, financial, and emotional. Any type of these abuses can cause a resident to become depressed and make…

operating a Funeral Home in the remote north. James is one of those individuals who is equally at home conducting a funeral service in the church as he is in fulfilling the skills of embalming and undertaking. Over the last few years, he has been schooling me experience by experience in the art of…

I know there are millions of nurses in North America alone, but I decided to write about my mother, Brigitte Santos. Brigitte is a home health care nurse that has worked all of her life to get to where she is today. Brigitte is the most hardworking, over achieving, caring and responsible person I know. Brigitte has raised 2 kids all the while working hard and going to school. I personally have seen my mother start from the bottom and work her way up to be an extremely successful woman. She has…