Cohousing-L Mailing List: #DISRUPTCAREGIVING - Community Care Partnerships

[Janice Blanchard (Janicecsa]

Care Partnerships: A Community-Based Solution to Support Aging in Community

 

Join us for this FREE webinar on Thursday, June 1st, 6:15-7:30 p.m. EDST.

Register at https://www.agingcollaboratory.org/webinars 


One of the goals of the Aging in Community Collaboratory is to 
#DISRUPTCAREGIVING.  We believe the long-term care system in our country is 
broken. On the one hand, we have legions of single-person “caregivers” (usually 
a spouse or daughter) trying to “do it all” in providing care and support for 
an elder loved one at home.  And at the other extreme, we have institutional 
long-term care. 

 

We believe we can all age better, when we do it together!  From cradle to 
grave, humans have survived, and THRIVED, because we live, work, play and CARE, 
together in community. We are a social animal – we were never meant to do any 
of this all alone.  We believe that by working together with our family, 
friends and neighbors, as well as with strategic community partnerships, we can 
create viable alternative models of care to the current menu of limited and 
unacceptable options for when many of us will become most vulnerable and frail. 
For those who attended our sessions at last week’s COHO US Conference, you know 
the Cavalry isn’t coming and the caregiver shortage is already underway… it’s 
up to us!  We are the ones we have been waiting for! 


Community care partnerships are one viable answer, although how those 
partnerships form and run, as well as roles and responsibilities of members, 
will vary from community to community.  Eden at Home promotes a community model 
approach in which the culture of meaningful care does not see the needs of 
caregivers as separate from the needs of care receivers, but rather advocates 
for the well-being of the whole care partnership. Working together, empowered 
care-partner teams help to support the well-being and continued growth and 
development of their elder care-partners and each other. By focusing on 
person-directed values such as choice, dignity, respect, self-determination and 
purposeful living, the care-partner team seeks to eliminate loneliness, 
helplessness, and boredom for all involved.

We invite you to join the Aging in Community Collaboratory next Thursday, June 
1st, at 6:15 pm EST for a FREE WEBINAR by Laura Beck on Care Partnerships. 
Laura serves as Learning and Development Guide for The Eden Alternative, an 
international non-profit organization focused on creating quality of life for 
elders and their care partners, wherever they live. Her 14 years with The Eden 
Alternative include development of Eden at Home, an initiative of The Eden 
Alternative focused on meeting the needs of elders living at home and their 
care-partners. Oh, and yes!  Laura also is a long-time resident of cohousing! 
She puts the “community” into “practice”😊

Time:  Jun 1, 2017 6:15 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) <javascript:;>   
Register at https://www.agingcollaboratory.org/webinars