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Lessons From A Dilly Bar
Lessons From a Dilly Bar® Who remembers hot summer nights after baseball games and stopping at the infamous Dairy Queen for a Dilly Bar? Still one of my all-time favorites, especially if I can find a little place that still hand dips their own. My mother also had a...
Da-Nile – Not Just a River in Egypt
A little bit about Denial.... denial noun de·ni·al | \ di-ˈnī(-ə)l the denial of privileges 2 a (1): refusal to admit the truth or reality of something (such as a statement or charge)// their denial of the divine right of kings (2): assertion that an...
Charting New Waters
When we sit down with a family to help them navigate the maze of senior housing options for themselves, their parents or a loved one, they are often in crisis. Something has happened to propel them to contact Oasis Senior Advisors. I'm not offended, but no one reaches...
Why YOU Need Oasis Senior Advisors
Who are you? A social worker or discharge planner? Adult child with a parent who needs help? Neighbor, friend, niece or nephew? Owner or employee of an in-home/home-health care organization? Financial planner or trust officer? A Physician, Physician Assistant or Nurse...
Making the Choice
One of the questions that often comes up in our discussions with families is the difference between assisted living and memory care. Often, people will wonder why their loved one with dementia, who is very able bodied, cannot reside in traditional assisted living....
Why Are They So Difficult?
"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret. For I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true." ~ Robert Brault This is a difficult post to write. Many emotions get swirled up in my head and often land in my heart. Sometimes the emotions even...
Role Reversal
Why is it that we truly have to find out some things for ourselves, no matter how many times we are told? For example: "Adult-ing" is hard. There won't always be a right or a wrong answer to some problems. Kids will grow up way too fast. When you are 50, you won't...
Crossroads & Changes
I believe that when a New Year is just on the horizon, many people stop and wonder what the coming year will hold. Will it be full of surprises? Will it bring happiness? Prosperity? Trials? More than ever before, I look toward 2016 knowing without a doubt that it...
So I Get to Talk…
I love to talk about my mom, which is also ironic because mom would never have wanted to talk about herself.
What is a Senior Living Advisor and When do I Need One?
Do you feel alone trying to help your parents? Help is available and you don’t have to go it alone.
Crossroads – Oasis Senior Advisors
Do we ever even know when we are at a crossroads until we’ve moved on? I don’t really think so. At least not very often. But maybe, just maybe I am recognizing this one.
Gracious Departure
Gracious: [grey-shuh s] adjective Pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous. Characterized by good taste, comfort, ease, or luxury. Merciful or compassionate: I could use so many beautiful words to describe my even more beautiful mother. But today I settled on this...
Discussions We Need to Have
Sometimes discussions are difficult to have with ones we love the most about subjects that are difficult to address. Taking a preemptive approach will not only insure that your wishes are known, but will ease the burden for your loved ones…even if just a bit.
Still Alice – The Movie
So this blog post will not go as planned. Late Friday or early Saturday I was going to post a review of the movie Still Alice, starring Julianne Moore. Yesterday I learned that Sony Pictures Classic was having it only on a limited release, which does not even include...
Runzas: A Nebraska Tradition
Runzas - A Nebraska Tradition: Cold winter days make these meat filled sandwiches particularly satisfying. In Nebraska, the Runza Restaurant chain made these famous and you cannot go to a University of Nebrasksa sporting event where these aren't part of the game day...
5 Things I hope for this Blog
5- That it serves to bring hope to people traveling the road of Alzheimer's with their loved ones. 4 - That is serves as a launch pad for my future book(s) and desire to speak and educate others about Alzheimer's and other age related dementias; i.e. Monarch...
I guess at one point or another one has to finally just dive in, right? I've been kicking around many ideas surrounding this blog for years, which intensified greatly in the last nine or so months. But it was surprisingly difficult to type this first post. I am a...