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...parent has dementia, doesn't that justify a child's taking full control? Not necessarily, says Dr. Juergen Bludau, medical director of the Joseph L. Morse Geriatric Center in West Palm Beach, Fla. A parent is still entitled to as much autonomy as is safe, says Dr. Bludau. For example, if a mother with early or middle-stage Alzheimer's still drives, he says, urge her to limit her exposure--avoiding highways or rush-hour driving, for example. Later on, some white lies may work, like taking the battery out of the car and pretending that there's no money...
...part of the building of the Getty because it was part of me. But I also thought it would help them understand how you go from nothing to something. Now they're both in their 20s. Ana is creating her own art history-literature major at Harvard. Joseph is at Harvard too, studying to become an architect. I guess maybe they got it. --As told to Francine Russo
...toward the end of this ordeal, I was awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize, all I could think was, I hope this helps me get the job. What anxiety! And so much work! Then one Sunday night after about a year of this, I was having dinner with my children--Joseph was 5, Ana was 4--and the phone rang with the good news. I couldn't believe it. I said, "Kids, you have to drink champagne for the first time in your life." I tried to explain what the job meant. They said, "Oh, that's nice...
...January, Simon & Schuster will publish, "Going to the People" by Joseph and Hadassah Lieberman. According to their publisher, "there has never been such a frank account of the American way of running for national office...
...Joseph's college, Darjeeling, we used to joke that the easiest job in the world was to be the football coach at St. Paul's, our traditional crosstown rivals. Their patented game plan was to hoof the ball in our general direction, hoping to catch our 'keeper unawares. All their coach had to do was point to our goal at the start of the game and say, "Shoot thataway." The tricky bit came at halftime, when he had to convince the dumb jocks that they now had to kick in the opposite direction! We, of course, played with dribbling skills...