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Perhaps a church, temple or community center-there are usually volenteers there who can be taught. If the caretaker learned, If the caretakers learned so can these people-since it won't be a 24 hr job. Some caretakers need a few hours free at reasonable intervals. I think this is a good idea. I have seen the lovely people learn amazing things-caring for disabled children or adults with other conditions. B. Bruce Anderson wrote: > > Dale, > I'm not a caregiver (except to my old dog) but I have comments anyway. > Hope you don't mind. This sounds like it would be an awfully expensive > proposition if made available universally to all who would want such > facilities. You mentioned it would be provided free to all who didn't have > insurance to pay for it. Who would provide it free, the medical facilities > who are going to also donate space? Or are you just posing a demonstration > project and I'm jumping the gun with these questions? > There is a sprawling, privately owned, senior housing/nursing home and > everything-in-between place a few miles from me - real vertical integration. > They just bought a large old Victorian house on the periphery (?) of their > complex and rebuilt it into a senior day care center. It looks real nice > and was built all to code, licensed, etc. Housing these in medical > facilities, hospitals, with medical exams, etc, sounds too expensive to > work. > Having said that now, I do recall the last time I was at the East Orange > VA Hospital. It is merging with the one in Lyons, NJ, because of under-use > (although neither is going to be closed, of course). The population of > W.W.II Vets in northern NJ, for whom these hospitals were built, is rapidly > decreasing, leaving lots of unused space. And there are thousands of these > hospitals all around the country. Some possibilities there?