Tag Archive for: assisted living
ANATOMY OF AN OUTBREAK – Part I: The Staff
By JOHN HOPKINS, DR.P.H.
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Bob's Facebook page shows him and his family in Florida in mid March 2020. Older parents, his wife and college age sons...cheerful,…
ANATOMY OF AN OUTBREAK – Part II: The Residents
By JOHN HOPKINS, DR.P.H.
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Louise and Thelma each lived about 90 years before they met as roommates at Bellamy Fields. Among my theories about…
ANATOMY OF AN OUTBREAK – Part III: The Virus
By JOHN HOPKINS, DR.P.H.
On the head of a pin sit either a million angels or a million particles of corona virus 19.
The outbreak in China is well publicized but not well understood because of the obfuscation. Had American and other international…
ANATOMY OF AN OUTBREAK – Part IV
By JOHN HOPKINS, DR.P.H.
"Caught in the Devil?s Bargain"
Joni Mitchell, "Woodstock" PART IV
A million virus particles on the head of a pin.
Got it?
It's not a hundred pins in your lungs; now it's a thousand...
It's the 4th of July…
You’ve Got A Plastic Spoon…Part V
By JOHN HOPKINS, DR.P.H.
...AND THE ICE CREAM IS FROZEN... PART V
The quarantine opposition is ready for a confrontation. Hoping to further obfuscate and downplay the initial failures of the viral immunization trials reported on Friday…
Johnny and Stefanie, Part VIII
She drives in there with a couple of hard lefts, in a Rubicon going too fast and when she gets to the window she yells over the blaring oldies 96.9 "two of whatever Benny gets."
She bristles. "Where's Benny?"
She bristles back. "So you're…
Johnny is an Opposer, Part IX
Johnny has her monkey voices and her brilliance battles with her mania, a.k.a. ADHD on the spectrum, somewhere. I.Q. Score is 141 (thanks Stanford-Binet).
If I cared I could be a doctor, like you.
Could be or would be? asks Bennie. Her…
Agent Orange meets the Novel Virus – Part X
Blowing in the Wind, Bob Dylan
How many deaths will it take...
They were boys in 1966, 20 +/- 2 years. Company A is now cohort A- they?re 75 years old, +/-2 they earned cohort status and medals for valor and bravery because American Air…
Apathy and Indifference
Apathy and Indifference
Some ordinary psychological states of mind take on new neurological meaning in people with dementia. Apathy and indifference are examples.
Lewy Body Dementia
The movement challenges of Parkinson's Syndrome and the cognitive declines of dementia combine, to make dementia with Lewy bodies a special treatment focus in assisted living.
