I found Mary Pipher's book in Mother's room. It is a collection of case histories.All of Dr. Pipher's case histories follow families as they learn how to work together to care for a newly helpless member. She advocates thinking of dependency as an inevitable and necessary state we all pass through - everyone as infants and most of us as old people. She recommends accepting as natural that people need help. Everyone. Everyone needs help. There is no point to pursuing an ideal world where no one needs anyone.
It is as if she had been present when we drew up the plans for the Fremont Street Center for Healthy Aging. It is as if she sat on our Board of Directors.
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