Celebrate National Assisted Living Week by listening to a story

This week marks the 13th annual National Assisted Living Week.  This year's theme is Legacies of Love.

This theme "highlights the privilege, value and responsibility of passing the legacies of our elders' lives down through the generations that care for them and love them".  The week kicks of with Grandparent's day (always the Sunday after Labor Day).  Sponsored by the National Center for Assisted Living, I'd like to commend them on such a meaningful theme.

Every week I'm invited into a potential clients homes and I get to hear stories about their homes, and their families.  Most of the events in their stories happen during a time when I wasn't even born, or was very young. As I listen to my client's stories, some of them reference the same events in our country's history but many of of my client's interpret those events very differently. Some of the stories are purely for entertainment value, but most stories have a purpose-a moral. If I listen carefully I learn.

This week I'm going to make it a point to share some of the lessons I've learned from my client's stories.