“Everything you do for me, you take from me,” words that were shared in the context of elder care services at a recent conference.  I must admit that I looked at those words on the screen and felt a series of emotions.  The first was a recognition that the words are true and the second, a desire to explain, to justify that “doing for someone” is showing that you care and that you want to make life easier for them.  In this case, without question, both things are true.

As people who care for elders, we rush to pick up the paper that fell from their hands, to reach the object they are stretching to grab.  We see them self-propelling a wheelchair down a hallway and we say “Here, let me help you.”  Or........

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