The following originally appeared on the Quaker Aging Resources Website.The Book Review by D. Rein, Third Haven Monthly Meeting, Easton, Md. Photo courtesy of Share the Care/sharethecare.org.
In the mid-1990s Friends Journal published an article about a young man with AIDs living with the support of a care committee established by his friends. When I mentioned it to a Friend from Third Haven Friends Meeting, she referred me to the book, Share the Care. As an educator and social worker, reading this book led me on a journey that continues today. When an attender at our meeting, also a skilled middle school art teacher, received a second cancer diagnosis that was predicted to be terminal, I shared the Friends Journal article and care committee concept with her. She contacted me and asked to set up a care committee, “before,” as she put it, “things got too hairy.” Following the process detailed in Share the Care ten of her friends whom she selected joined together for the two-year support to the end of her life. [Read more…] about Book Review: Share the Care | Quaker Aging Resources
