I’m a registered nurse with a 30-year passion for senior care and advocacy. For the last 8 years I have owned and directed Visiting Angels, a private duty homecare agency in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is my honor and privilege to work with seniors and their families in my community.

My love of the elderly began when I started to work as an aide in a nursing home when I was 17. There are many patients I still remember and think about 30 years later.

One of them was a lady–I’ll call her “Ann”–who couldn’t speak or do anything for herself. She quietly lay in bed day after day. Ann never had a visitor, so I knew nothing about her.

One evening our assignment was to clean our residents’ closets and drawers. While I was working in Ann’s room, I found a box. In it were no less than 30 letters and cards. I sat on the floor and started to read them, tears falling from my eyes. They were love letters from a husband to his wife. Never had I known, or even heard about, such profound and amazing love. This woman, lying there alone, seemingly unloved, had actually shared a fairy tale love, rare and amazing, with an adoring spouse. Read more…