This fall I decided to change the meeting time of the support group to the evening so that people like me, working children, could attend. Then I set out to find speakers to talk about local resources. How disappointing to find that the Area Agency on Aging, local home health providers, pretty much any of the "professional" resources are unwilling to come speak at an evening meeting that is held after business hours. How inconvenient that there may be people like me out there who work during the day and can't attend a meeting during business hours. I find it hard to believe that in this day of the service economy, businesses that provide a service are unwilling to go outside the box.
I guess what that means for me and the Caregiver Support group is that it is all the more important for me to know about resources to pass on to others. On the other hand, it reminds me in my role as an assisted living administrator that I need to be sure families have access to me and any other resources in caring for their loved ones during "off" hours as well as business hours. As I tell other people, sometimes you learn from examples of what not to do as much as those that you want to emulate.
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