When I am asked what I do and respond that I work in senior services, specifically long term care and assisted living, I am often greeted by the same reaction, “Oh, I could never do that, it is just too sad.”  No matter how many times, and how many ways, I tell people that it is not sad, I know that they don’t accept it.  They imagine a world in which all we do is end of life care and that we are in a constant state of saying goodbye to our elders.

The reality is quite different.  Is end of life a component of elder care?  Of course it is.  We care for people in the last quadrant of their lives.  We work with issues of aging from physical challenges to cognitive decline.  But, as I often say, we get a gift from........

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