Once the CNN Heroes piece, featuring Morningside Village, was aired in June 2010, we began to receive email letters with heart-rending stories about institutional abuse that family members discovered at the nursing homes where their parents and grandparents live\/lived.\u00a0 We also received numerous inquiries from all over the nation and beyond from people who want to know if there is such an eldercare village in their home towns, or they want to know how to start one.\u00a0 What great news!\u00a0 We are thrilled to learn that the need for our kind of compassionate eldercare resounds with so many.
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\nAlthough at the moment we don’t have the resources to provide help, we soon will!\u00a0 S.O.S., Support Our Seniors is now undertaking a project called “Eldercare Village Modeling”, and we expect to have something ready to add to our website in the fall.\u00a0\u00a0 Naturally, each environment is different, so we will be offering guidelines that transcend local specifics and that can be applied in different settings.\u00a0 We will also provide an interactive feature that will allow village “builders” to help one another as we all move forward together.\u00a0 Finally, we will thus be creating a network that can serve as an important eldercare resource on a national basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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