Courage is contagious
Facility staff have no idea if catching COVID-19 will be merely an annoyance or a life-threatening battle, a parking ticket or a death sentence. But still, they go.
Most recent articles by Gary Tetz
Bad news on the doorstep
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.
Face touching for dummies
Can you remember a public health directive than “don’t touch your face” that’s ever been more simple, clear and science-based, yet more difficult to execute? I can’t.
Raging against reality
If I needed an object lesson in why seniors, long-term care providers and actually, all humans, seem to have such difficulty facing the inevitability of change, I got it recently — in the men’s wear section at my local dying department store.
Love in the air
Love was in the air this Valentine’s Day, and in the days before and after. Let me tell you the ways.
Tempets in a typo
Sometimes a writer has to take a principled stand no matter how oxymoronic that might sound. That’s why today, without fear of reprisal, I want to talk about typos.
A shallow obsession
A smartphone app in development purports to use speech analysis to diagnose dementia. That’s fantastic news, but it ignores one of my fundamental beliefs: that smartphone use is dementia, on a global scale. The irony is that our phone addiction is making us crazy as a civilization and species, but in our demented state, we…
An insomniac’s medicine cabinet
Wakeful, wandering, grumpy and doomed. These precious words describe our faithful, bleary-eyed columnist most nights.
This year, stop wandering about!
If you didn’t make any New Year’s resolutions, you better be prepared to explain why.
Go venti or go home
Any chance to write about coffee, I should. That’s perhaps the most important thing I’ve learned over all my years writing for McKnight’s. Based on audience response, it’s one of the topics long-term care folks care quite passionately about.
