5 1/2 Years of Elder Care for My Mom in My Home--New Elder Care Package
by Tom Dyke
(Austin, Texas)
Mom and Her Three Boys (Circa. 1943)
My story is the same as that of about 70,000,000 other folks with aging parents in our country. The story comes from a common question: our home or the rest home?
And I'd do it all over again. It gave me the chance to repay my loving mom for birthing and raising my brothers and me.
We moved my mom into our home for the last 5 ½ years of her life and it was a challenge to say the least.
There were no books on in-my-home elder care and no organized online databases for the information and products needed for in-my-home elder care.
In spite of extensive formal education and a varied business career, I was not prepared. It took nearly three years to catch up with the learning curve. It was something new, most days and nights and it was relentless. But the rewards were profound.
To help the millions coming behind us with aging parents, I resolved to put a package in place that would prepare them and help them through.
The results of my efforts are a book and two organized online databases for elder care information and products.
Mama Moves In, is the book about deciding to proceed, preparing for the move in, marshaling the assets, pulling the family into the process, consulting the experts, making the home ready and living through the experience. Research Pro are the organized online databases.
I would like to share my experience with you and your audience. What I have done will be of no benefit to anyone if we can't reach the millions of people who need the elder care package.
Please help.
