So, now we learn that flossing is probably useless. It’s not even recommended anymore. The government said so.
Toss me overboard
By
Gary Tetz
May 22, 2015
Last time we talked, it was peppers and hooch. Now it’s liquor and prostitutes. As a long-term care professional, I imagine you’re wondering what you’ve done wrong to encourage this trending...
The conscience of tech
By
Gary Tetz
Jan 08, 2018
Remember those innocent days when long-term care was hopelessly tech-phobic, and EHR was just a quick way to tell 911 your facility was under attack by an Emerging Hostile Rodent?
Bad news on the doorstep
By
Gary Tetz
Mar 19, 2020
Compared to shoppers tearing apart a pallet of toilet paper, our facility staff have been Buddhas in scrubs during the recent pandemic. But even they aren’t the most inspiring out of all of this.
Inconvenient tears
By
Gary Tetz
Oct 09, 2014
How dare you, Patrick! And just when my day was going so well.
Gary Tetz: Hands off my salt!
By
Gary Tetz
Feb 05, 2019
Here’s a question that just popped unwelcome into my idle mind. When time taps me on the shoulder and beckons toward a long-term care facility, what should I pack?
It’s me. I’m the problem.
By
Gary Tetz
Oct 05, 2023
Sadly, I didn’t get to the American Health Care Association convention this year. Actually, it’s been a full decade since I last personally attended one of these auspicious gatherings, Now, lest...
Grateful? Make a list
By
Gary Tetz
Sep 02, 2021
While walking reluctantly into our place of long-term care employment yesterday, a colleague and I started talking sarcastically about how delighted we were to be alive and at work. We didn’t mean a...
After the train
By
Gary Tetz
Jul 08, 2021
There’s a hopeful phrase we started hearing a lot from long-term care leaders, residents and staff when the vaccines first arrived—“a light at the end of the tunnel.” Invariably some wise-guy or...
Awake for a cure
By
Gary Tetz
Mar 08, 2018
At this point in the search for a cure for Alzheimer’s, each glimmer of hope seems to come with a looming cloud of probable disappointment — and the question, “Will I get it someday?”...