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“I know people will be happy when I am gone” a resident told me some time ago. He acknowledged he had done wrong to many people; people that the resident was supposed to love, care and protect. Now, unable to be a thread or a menace to anyone, and after perhaps months of reflection knowing …
Some time ago, one of our residents, a beautiful lady who was over ninety years of age told me about her ardent desire to meet someone and marry him, she had never being married, and this feeling palpitated in her heart as strong as when she was twenty. She would talk to me about her …
February was a rather emotional month for me as the chaplain. I wasn’t able to visit the residents in the usual regular way due to the outbreak and later on because everyone in my home got sick. When I finally arrived almost at the end of the month I received an updated list of residents …
For us who work so close to the residents, familiarity can become a bit of a struggle. This is why I always take a minute or two to purposely think on what I am doing every time I engage in a conversation with a resident. I guess I have learned to do this after a …
These particular weeks have been very emotional for me. My first born is going for the first time to school. The fact of seeing him each day more independent from me makes me very forlorn, yet I do understand that he must become his own person, and little by little, year by year, experience by …
There was a resident not too long ago that passed away without saying goodbye to me. One morning I arrived to her bedroom to find her no more; a sudden departure that I wasn’t expecting. My heart grieved. Days prior we had joked and talked about life, a prayer of blessing and a “see you …
For many years I have been trying to comprehend how a person with dementia relates to his/her world, and how that world shrinks for them at an untouchable increasing pace. For more than a decade now I have been interacting and counselling many who suffer from dementia. Not only them but also their families and …