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Quick, get me to a TV show! Since the TV patients who get CPR survive 67% of the time, and those in the hospital only 6.5 to 15%, and the ones on TV recover fully, then if I need CPR, don’t take me to a hospital; get me to the TV station!

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The trickster? Ahh, I love the notion. Where does the trickster lie in wait for us in Elder Caring Lawyering? In the elder himself, herself. In sense of humor and ways of approaching the world. In the ways we play with each other, family and friends. In the lawyer thinking What if we reverse field?

:- Doug.

What are the most health stimulating, wholeness inducing rhythms we can employ in elder caring lawyering? Slow the rhythms, open: allowing for all voices to be heard, from piccolo to bassoon, from kettle drum to marimba, from plaintive violin to incessant snare to trickster fife. Responsive, echoing, accompanying. Tender, touched.

:- Doug.

Elder Caring Lawyers are not order takers. Nor are we simply advisors, with answers to what lies around every bend, behind every door. We are more companions who have been down similar roads, who have studied the texts telling how things are designed to work, companions who will walk the road ahead alongside you.

:- Doug.

The family is absolutely necessary: if they won’t do one choice, that choice is no longer a choice.

:- Doug.