Have you ever had some well-meaning someone give you a gift that turns out to be more like a job?
Reader Poll: What do you wish you could do at work for the first time?
Dec 04, 2015
“Probably go out with my patients for a simple thing like eating outside or going to a restaurant they like. We try to give them all these choices. They might want a special breakfast, but we have...
Don’t forget to look up
By
Gary Tetz
Nov 05, 2015
For long-term care providers who usually only check the sky to see if it’s falling, the recent harvest supermoon lunar eclipse brought the chance for a fresh perspective.
Conventional wisdom
By
Gary Tetz
Oct 05, 2015
It’s long-term care convention season again. You can feel it in the air. Strange, troublesome urges start to take over.
Driven to drink – cheers!
By
Gary Tetz
Mar 04, 2015
Is it just a coincidence that on the day after the most heartbreaking defeat ever in Seattle sports, following the worst coaching decision in recorded football history, not just the Super Bowl, I choose...
Dirty hands needed
By
Gary Tetz
Sep 01, 2014
Gardening is magic. Gardening is mindfulness. Gardening is therapist, physician and personal trainer without spandex or a copay. And now researchers have confirmed that gardening can help nursing home...
Climb every mountain
By
Gary Tetz
Aug 01, 2014
I’m obsessed by mountains, particularly the ones I’m staring at right now in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park. Marvelous, epic monoliths of rock and ice, they dominate and intimidate....
Cynicism is contagious
By
Gary Tetz
Jul 01, 2014
Research shows cynical people die younger and are three times more likely to get dementia? Yeah, right. I’d like to see who paid for that study. And I just read on the Internet that evil corporations...
Forgiveness — do it
By
Gary Tetz
Jun 01, 2014
That new CNA ran over your foot with the med cart. Someone else is getting the promotion you expected. A resident’s family member said horrible things about you. A coworker stole your shift — and...
A miracle of reflection
By
Gary Tetz
Apr 01, 2014
Sometimes in business — and particularly in the long-term care business — it can be useful to see things from a fresh, unexpected perspective.