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At a recent early
morning healthcare association meeting in Miami, I was
seated at a table with eleven other bleary eyed attendees
all nursing our first cup of coffee of the day. My friend
Elaine who was sitting next to me casually asked about my
puppy Morris, who celebrated his first birthday this month.
Elaine had not seen Morris in a while and to illustrate how
much he had grown over the past few months, I pulled out my
cellphone and showed her a few pictures I had snapped of
him. Within minutes, each and every person at the table was
passing around their own cellphone pictures of their dogs. I
felt as if I had stepped through the looking glass into a
place where pixels replaced color snapshots and furry babies
replaced grandkids as the topic of proud discourse. Just as
I thought the whole world had gone to the dogs, someone from
another table came over and flashed cellphone shots of her
beloved which was decidedly not canine. It was of a parrot.
Speaking of Miami, it is
my pleasure to announce that Assistant Secretary for Aging
at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Josefina G. Carbonell will be joining us at the first annual
Miami Fearless Caregiver Conference. We welcome Assistant
Secretary Carbonell as a long time Miami resident and look
forward to her comments. We look forward to seeing you on
March 29th if you can join us.
Gary Barg
Editor-in-Chief
gary@caregiver.com
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