Bookmark and Share

GUEST BLOG: Cooking demo sparks reflection on the value of senior housing

Yesterday, my Mother-in-law Dropadi Vaswani did the cooking demonstration in the program center kitchen at JCHE's Genesis House.  It was fun, interactive, and delicious.  At one point we had 3 ladies making potato patties like a little factory!   

While the experience was great while it was happening, it's become better and better as I mull it over.  I have never seen my Mother-in-law happier than she was yesterday, doing what she loves (feeding people), getting hugs and praise from the tenants, and describing the experience to her son, husband, and brother.  She kept saying how amazing it is that there is something like this for older people here.  "Only in America" she said several times, do low income older people have such a beautiful place to live and so many interesting things to do.  She is an older woman from India -- a country with NO social safety net and no formalized care for their elders.  If your family doesn't take care of you you die alone, and early.  Seeing JCHE from her perspective really drove home for me the great work we do, and made me feel proud of how well we do it.
 
Sarah Green-Vaswani is a Resident Services Coordinator at JCHE's Brighton Campus
DSC 0009
DSC 0016
   

Click here to read more blog entries.

Go back

Add a comment

Comment by Ruby | 08-22-2012

Wow Mummy! I know how happy this must have made you. and thank you sarah for making it happen.

Comment by santosh lalwani | 08-24-2012

wow your expertise in cooking is now international.
We are proud of you.
Not only you serve here in india you serve every where. Senior citizen will be happy. Lots of love.

Comment by Valecha and Family and Indore Bua | 09-02-2012

We saw the photos and are very happy to see you.

Comment by bhavika | 09-04-2012

hello nanny.i am so happy to see u happy with u r family n enjoying doing cooking which u love the most n u really cook delicious.love u n miss u.

Comment by Pankaj | 09-12-2012

Hey this is really awesome. Keep it up. Missing You. Pushu.

Comment by AV Cables | 04-22-2013

K The gradual improvement of living standards, demand for mobile phones is not limited to communications, is the pursuit of the appearance of the phone and entertainment properties, then in the end what kind of phone is able to meet all these requirements? Pandawill special launch lifestylish digital shopping guide series, holding a purse you accurate shot, to buy their favorite products.

Comment by cheap mobile phones | 05-13-2013

H Good post.This6
is a very nice blog I wonder why the other of this sector do not notice this. am sure this post has helped me save many hours of browsing other similar posts just to find what I was looking for. Thanks!

Comment by CNC machining manufacturer | 05-17-2013

e Rapid Prototype has been become an essential part of modern corporate world and a number of industries are using it for advanced designing at cheapest rate.