Seniors without kin
#11
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Any place I can sew
Posts: 434
Thank you for your post. Due to health problems (my mothers), I am her care giver and have been tied up with her. I work from home as well, but I still have time to quilt. In the past I have quilted for kids, but didn't think about kin-less adults (I'm sure we have a number in our town - so this has been my bad). Thank you again for making me look past the end of my nose.
Snooks
Snooks
#12
Super Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Sweet Home Alabama
Posts: 3,140
What a wonderful idea. I used to send quite a few quilts to Quiltsforkids and some others, but the postage is getting out of hand on that venture. I think I'll check with some of the local places and see what I can do. Thanks for sharing.
#13
A sister church in our town is starting a quilting bee to make quilts for an orphanage. We have a new nursing home in our community and this would be a good place to start after quilting for the kids.
#15
You did a very generous thing.......and something that can inspire us to do wonderful, thoughtful things for those not as fortunate. Thanks for your kindness, you make the world a better place!
#17
I've started going local for my charities. The area I live in is full of small towns and alot of people are low income. I used to do quilts for kids, but I figured, why not help the ones that live near me.
#18
thank you for your kindness and generosity. I have been toying with this idea for awhile myself. I want to target Hospice patients. They need a little kindness shone in the time they have left. since I do hand work, it takes me longer to do things. But, when I get my longarm, this will be one of my top priorities!
#19
Super Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Alturas, CA
Posts: 9,393
We have a nursing home in the small town where I live, and I had wanted to make some lap quilts for the people in it, but after talking to the person in charge, I decided NOT to. The reason: if the person dies and the members of the family don't want the quilt, the home tosses them in the TRASH. I asked, why didn't they just give them to someone else, it's not like they were personalized, but they said, NO, in the trash they go, so they get no quilts from me. They did ask for scarves and gloves though this year, so I donated 18 scarves.
#20
Yesterday I was visiting at a Senior Citizen high rise in midtown Atlanta. Resident of the apt had gone out to walk his dog and my daughter and I heard "tapping" in the hallway....I thought it was someone at our door......we finally got up and opened the door and it was a man and woman tapping on the door across the hall....we apologized and told them that we thought they were at our door. They kept tapping and tapping.......we finally hear the man say, "Mom, this is Tommy, I'm your son and this is my wife"......he also said we've got you "tv" dinners and Christmas coffee.....the older woman finally opened the door and we could hear her say "I didn't know who you are....and how did you know I like coffee".....Isn't that sad !
The resident that we were visiting said that the woman seldom leaves her apt but they have folks that check on people like that more than once a day to make sure they've eaten, bathed, etc. He said that most likely that woman will be moved to a "real" assisted living center rather than a retiree's high rise.
My heart aches not only for that woman but her family as well. My step mother (83) was just recently diagnosed with early stages of Alzhemiers (sp?) and her daughters are facing moving her out of her little apt and into the home of one of them, PLUS taking away her car, which I think ought to be first priority ! Sweet little woman could get out in that car and not get back. She asked one of her daughters the other day "who was that man" and her daughter reminded her it was her husband of 30+ years.........
The resident that we were visiting said that the woman seldom leaves her apt but they have folks that check on people like that more than once a day to make sure they've eaten, bathed, etc. He said that most likely that woman will be moved to a "real" assisted living center rather than a retiree's high rise.
My heart aches not only for that woman but her family as well. My step mother (83) was just recently diagnosed with early stages of Alzhemiers (sp?) and her daughters are facing moving her out of her little apt and into the home of one of them, PLUS taking away her car, which I think ought to be first priority ! Sweet little woman could get out in that car and not get back. She asked one of her daughters the other day "who was that man" and her daughter reminded her it was her husband of 30+ years.........
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