Table of Content
- Meet Oscar, a Nursing Home Cat Who Predicts Death
- Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat
- News & Interviews
- '1619 Project' Creator Nikole Hannah-Jones Slams Backlash, Book-Banning Efforts
- Adult Bib / Dinner Scarf - Seniors, Nursing Home, Handicap Clothing Protection - Berry/Green Floral Cats
A scene includes a retiree in a walker in front of the home dropping dead on the sidewalk when the cat walks in front of him and screeches. I have read articles about Oscar so I was excited to find out there was a book about him. As I read my interest started waning as I realized it was more about the doctor and Alzheimer's then about Oscar. Making Rounds with Oscar provides a poignant example of the “magic” of animals and how important they can be in our lives. “He’ll slip out for two minutes, grab some kibble and then he’s back at the patient’s side. It’s like he’s literally on a vigil.” And although the nursing home keeps five other cats, none of the others have exhibited similar behavior.
There was also a dog, that got to stay with his master till the end. I loved the stories of the residents of Steere House, especially the Rubensteins. After reading, I've visited the website of Steere House to know more about Oscar and he has his own page on the website. It's a beautiful cat who gives the necessary comfort in leaving the earthly world.
Meet Oscar, a Nursing Home Cat Who Predicts Death
I finished the book I brought with me for the trip out. And because of the “no electronics during take-off and landing” rule, I needed another book to keep me occupied on the return trip until I could read on the iPad (or, in this instance, re-watch the season finale of Sons of Anarchy). Anyway, I was in a really small airport that had a really small selection of books. The only one that really caught my eye was Making Rounds With Oscar. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Found something you love but want to make it even more uniquely you?
She spent alot of time at her bay window looking at the birds. The daughter mentioned it was nice to have it, and I replied I moved it just for her mother. These were the cool things I got to do-get back to the bedside some, without the nursing as such.
Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat
It seems I am in the minority here, but I thought this book was just okay. It was billed as a story about a cat's ability to sense when dementia patients in a nursing home were approaching death and his dedication to remaining with them during their final hours. The real focus of the book, however, was on Dr. Dosa's experience treating his patients with dementia. That subject is certainly important and interesting, but the approach of revealing almost the entire story through dialogue between himself and the nursing staff and/or family members of the patients wore thin after a while.
The book opens with Dosa bemoaning not getting a grant--well, he's raking cash in with this book. If you were dissatisfied with Dewey the Library Cat for its meandering off the subject of Dewey, you'll hate this. He's accurate enough that the staff - including Dosa - know it's time to call family members when Oscar stretches beside their patients, who are generally too ill to notice his presence.
News & Interviews
He isn’t deemed the friendliest boy, but the residents are happy to have him. (As an aside, when it’s time for me to go to the old folks’ home, my first question will be “Do you allow cats?” It will be a deal breaker if the answer is no). The staff knows that whenever Oscar settles on a bed, it’s time to call the family. Oscar was not the only animal that resided at the nursing home. Steere House was unlike other nursing homes in the area.
Making Rounds with Oscar is about a marvelous cat, one of three, on the third floor of a Rhode Island nursing home. He senses when death is imminent, and that is a gift that sets the staff talking and prompts the facility’s doctor David Sosa, M.D., the author, on a quest to understand what makes Oscar purr, er, tick. What the book is about is Dr Dosa who isn't very interesting. He's married with kids and has non-disabling arthritis.
'1619 Project' Creator Nikole Hannah-Jones Slams Backlash, Book-Banning Efforts
Relevant articles delivered to your inbox every week. Dosa learns to live for the moment, much like Oscar, who delights in naps and chin scratches or the patient who recovers enough to walk the hall holding the hand of the husband she'll eventually forget. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
American-born New Yorker Linda Johnson has been fascinated with robotic machines since she was a teenager, when her father, a surgeon, would introduce to her the machines that he used to perform keyhole surgeries. This interest led her to pursue a tech degree at the University of Washington, where she met Sota Takahashi. Linda’s father developed dementia later on and was given a robot pet as a companion.
My wife had started the book a couple weeks earlier but had to put it down. Her mom died of complications of Alzheimer’s; we had watched the symptoms emerge and urged testing, which confirmed our worst suspicions. Those memories still too close to the surface forced my wife, a nurse, to turn away from traveling Oscar’s road, for now. There is one couple, in particular, whose story winds through most of the book. The husband is totally dedicated, sometimes to the point of overwhelming obsession, to his wife and her spiraling downhill plight.
I bought this book because I wanted to know more about THE CAT. Not about Doctor Dosa or the lives of his patients. Everything about the outside of the book points to it being ABOUT the cat, not being about the doctor who doesn't even like cats and makes no attempt to get to know the species or this member of it. This is about Dosa's health, or his family, or the interminable stories about people and then the "and oh yeah Oscar was there when they died and it was great." Seriously, the book gives Oscar maybe 10% of the real estate.
Still, it is a story of companionship and love in the sense of Oscar being a part of a patient’s final hours and in the stories of love from the patient’s families. It is overall heartwarming and comforting, and one I would recommend. What a beautiful cat and what a wonderful nursing home to allow animals. It sounds like a very special place where the staff truly care about their patients and helping them achieve a peaceful death.
The book is really about his job which is treating Alzheimers' patients in a nursing home. The cat, not a friendly creature, knows when people are dying and goes to sit with them. We don't know any more about Oscar and anyway the book isn't about him and an investigation into how Oscar gains this knowledge that beats even medical technology's ability to predict death. Meet Oscar, a cat with a supernatural ability to feel when people are about to die. In over 50 documented cases, Oscar, who lives in a nursing home , has curled up beside patients in their final hours, seeing them through to the ‘other side’. A robot cat is a perfect companion for life for our loved ones who are living in such care facilities.
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Oscar was adopted by the medical staff as a kitten and his home ever since has been on the third floor of the nursing home, with the dementia patients. The facility has over 200 residents, and many of them have suffered strokes and brain injuries, or are too old to care for their own pets. She resides on the main floor, and while she isn't allowed upstairs into any bedrooms, her presence is evident to all. I bring this up because some might say that Oscar’s wonderful story undercuts human exceptionalism. There is no doubt that Oscar appears to be showing empathy.
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