A New Thread from the Talk About Providing Funding for Camp...What About for Elder Care?!
In response to someone saying they didn't understand what I was discussing in the last two posts, I offered the following. Maybe It's Not About Camp but About Elder Care (and child care) that is needed but is not well-understood. Those are the Elephants In The Room! So here is that response...bear with me and one another as possible..
But here's another response I gave when someone said to find a camp I could donate to and not to donate to people directly even if seeming honest and so forth...
Thanks, Kate. That sounds nice but this certificate is one I purchased a couple years back. Usually people offer scholarships to their own programs. I don't feel it's sensible to discourage people from donating to individuals when there is sufficient accountability.
This is a rather public, transparent forum. Maybe a few non-profits could work with locals to help with many smaller issues. Some individuals would be great to be able to assist with such smaller transactions.
Often a hundred dollars or so can make a big difference to people and 'get the ball rolling.' There's more to discuss but let's look into how things can be done reasonably and not leave it all up to professionals and agencies, who often cannot be accessed by many most in need for various reasons.
There are countless 'mandated reporting' issues, so plenty of good folks go without, particularly kids who need a little encouragement whether with a basic allowance of 10/week or so or money management to do some extra jobs around a home or with their parent for a neighbor etc.
Lots more to think about and help youth with. Community guidelines could go a long way to 'spreading the wealth around' a bit with people understanding who really needs what kind of help or support for basics and a few extras too.
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Thanks for your honest feedback. Maybe it's a bit difficult to pick up without someone to talk if over carefully. I have been confused plenty along the way about options and how to handle a dozen key points that's how we got 'this far'.
Clearly the community is not very tuned into the idea of people working together without a formal non-profit (or for-profit) agency to run the show. I explore these issues and allow the 'wisdom and even issues' to speak to a wider audience or the times.
On my blog Livfully.org the 'Difficulties about talking things over on FB and about summer camp options' post led me to think about this as a warming for anyone needing homecare and only depending on agencies and 'approved people' to manage things for themselves or their loved ones or community members. Most cannot begin to consider allowing people many aspects of their regular life to continue...and the private arrangements often are lacking as well.
So more 'bridge building is needed'. Funding that may be asked for could be done as loans in case a person does need to go to a facility or qualify for state care. The loans would be able to counted toward as an expense to be paid back hopefully. I'm not a legal or financial planner so these are questions to explore for that. I have offered that maybe this is where 'all of this is most valuable to lead another discussion on...' That would be worth starting a new thread for...
As I took a break from these posts I watched Jeapordy and the topics of "high blood pressure which is called the silent killer" (What is Hypertension?) and Which French Author wrote a book after seeing the human likeness of gorillas.? Who is Pierre Boulle? (He wrote Monkey Planet and that became Planet of the Apes) I am thinking those are other 'hot topics'...what would the gorillas do if they had to care for one another, whether in the wild or in the world depicted with the Planet of the Apes...and really how can we care for one another with more dignity and respect, accountability, trust and 'affordability?'
These are important questions many brave on a few forums (and yes, that includes Clubhouse where people can have their own houses and private ones or paid ones as well. See what Lissa Coffey offers as well on coffeytalk.com to encourage the inner game and the long view of living well, going as I am encouraging all to do, myself included, from worrier to warrior. Hope this is helpful. and plenty more about the needs in the caregiving field on this blog and online with a google, but plenty more needed!
Get thee to a MIDEO video on youtube or learn about how to plan ahead in life for all sorts of things, known and much not known....Hopefully with a team and back ups too. Thanks for all believing in the human spirit and community efforts and real folks working to make the world a friendlier safer place on all fronts. How hard can it be in this modern day and age?
