by Joe Clark | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured
Minnie Graham, a 98-year-old woman who has spent the last few years of her long life as a resident of Winters Park Nursing Home in Garland, Texas, had dementia. The senior woman’s family entrusted her in the care of the home and on hospice, hoping their loved...
by Matthew Silvan | Jan 16, 2019 | Featured
A 92-year-old Holocaust survivor decided she would arrange transportation to visit her daughter herself. She contacted a taxi service promoted as a safe, city-run transportation service for the disabled and the elderly in Canada. The taxi arrived at her Quebec home...
by Matthew Silvan | Dec 23, 2018 | Featured
We’ve all heard many stories about families who abruptly abandon pets to the streets. But not as many of us have heard about families who abandon their human family members. Yet the idea of discarding a human being when they become elderly and suffer from a...
by Heather Laskin | Nov 10, 2018 | Featured, Inspiration
Anyone who has been to a wedding knows the famous part of the wedding vows: “Till death do you part.” The words are meant to convey the strength of the bond this couple now shares – they are in it for the long haul, come what may. Sadly, these vows...
by Samantha Higgins | Oct 31, 2018 | Featured, Inspiration
Every Monday for 21 years in the town of Fairbanks, Alaska, Meals on Wheels volunteer Virgil Severns would load up his four-wheel-drive vehicle at the Fairbanks Senior Center and spent half the day delivering meals to local residents who were housebound. The...