One of my long time projects is about to get another big boost. In April 2010, we incorporated Cord of Three Strands Care Center, a potential non-profit, in an attempt to move toward a community that combines continuing care strategies and aging in place. This month, I signed up for classes as a long term care administrator.
Unfortunately, as many ideas that come up, none has met the goals I have in mind. We will keep looking, most likely to build the community ourselves.
One of the things I must keep in our community is the ability of family caregivers to remain close by. Family caregivers, if they do not already share a living space with their elderly family member, have so many issues to deal with. The cost of being in-between for them often means something suffers. If not quality time with their children, it's quality time with their elder or their spouse, because they cannot do a task to help one without worrying about the welfare of the other.
Very little time is left for themselves.
A care community that builds on the family caregiver's willingness to be there for their loved ones (all of them) needs to be able to provide tools, people and planning that enhances the relationships built among people who have a like mind to sharing problems as they get older.
That's Cord of Three Strands.
It will be so. Amen.
