This morning I awoke, so relieved. It had only been a dream: I was the only one in a large house far from civilization taking care of a 97 year old mother who lay in bed recuperating from a stroke.
I awoke not in a house a mile from a small town, but I was in (more…)
How do we at Morningside Village sustain our organization? It must be on love. Unlike most of the “villages” in the aging-in-place village movement in America today, Morningside Village elders do not pay for what they receive, except very often in unexpected kindnesses. And, volunteer duties are not prescribed in a brochure where elder members can choose from a list of services: traveling escort, computer touble-shooting, snow-shoveling and more. Rather, our volunteers are more like neighbors. In fact, we are neighbors. We visit; we help with whatever we can; we talk; we listen; and we care for our elder friends.
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and you have a large part of our Morningside Village volunteer base.
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My mother, in her late nineties suffered from osteoporosis and arthritis so that she needed to use a…a…a…WALKER! To her this was an insufferable fate.
It was more than annoying when (more…)
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