IT TAKES A VILLAGE…

It takes a village to raise a child and it takes a village to care for its elderly or its people with dementia.

Yesterday I posted on Facebook how we have had incidents with people who have dementia alone in Costa Rica and in need of assistance. Pleas for help were sent out by their families on different FB sites. It’s when I realized we need some kind of emergency dementia service for foreigners and asked in my posts for people interested in helping me create one.

So far, less than 18 hours later 14 wonderful people have joined in this endeavor. I created a Facebook messenger group called CR Emergency Dementia Service. The majority are from all over Costa Rica and a few from other countries. Anyone wanting to help can send a request to join. All are welcome.

I hope people will not get tired of my updating posts, but I think it is important for FB people, especially here in Costa Rica to follow our progress and if they find an area they can be effective in, maybe want to join us.

I will be offering this new service on my dementia project website, www.theinfinitemind.org as soon as we can get it ready. Please check out this website and read about the rural dementia education program I’ve been developing for Costa Rica; it is slated to be ready by January or whenever this crisis is passed. This program includes talks in Spanish in rural towns and another in English for the ex-pat pocket communities in those areas.

I have spent the last three months designing this project under the auspices of the Alama Fund Inc, a non-profit corporation based in Massachusetts. I have done pretty well in the lockdown working often 5- 7 hours a day on development. I have no complaints, I’m really excited about where this is taking me. I am presently working on the free online video education component and will notify FB people when ready. The rural project will need a 4×4 vehicle which hopefully we’ll have by my January deadline.

At present, the CR Emergency Dementia Service could use more help and if you can we’d be excited to have you join. It will entail setting up community networks of local assistance throughout the country. So you don’t have to be in Costa Rica or know anything about dementia to help. Join on the messenger group, CR Emergency Dementia Service.

Tomorrow I’ll post some specific ideas of how you can help. Remember, “It takes a Village…”

Thank you to all of you.

It takes a village to raise a child and it takes a village to care for its elderly.

Yesterday I posted on Facebook how we have had incidents with people who have dementia alone in Costa Rica and in need of assistance. Pleas for help were sent out by their families on different FB sites. It’s when I realized we need some kind of emergency dementia service for foreigners and asked in my post for people interested in helping me create one.

So far, less than 18 hours later 14 wonderful people have joined in this endeavor. I created a Facebook messenger group called CR Emergency Dementia Service. The majority are from all over Costa Rica and a few from other countries. Anyone wanting to help can send a request to join. All are welcome.

I hope people will not get tired of my updating posts, but I think it is important for FB people, especially here in Costa Rica to follow our progress and if they find an area they can effective in, maybe join us.

I will be offering this new service on my dementia project website, www.theinfinitemind.org as soon as it has some infrastructure. Please check out this website and read about the rural dementia education program I’ve been developing; it is slated to ready by January or whenever this crisis is passed. This program includes talks in Spanish in rural towns and another in English for the ex-pat pocket communities in those areas.

I have spent the last three months designing this project under the auspices of the Alama Fund Inc, a non-profit corporation based in Massachusetts. I have done pretty well in the lockdown working often 5- 7 hours a day on development. I have no complaints, I’m really excited about where this is taking me. I am presently working on the free online video education component and will notify FB people when ready. The rural project will need a 4×4 vehicle which hopefully we’ll have by my January deadline.

At present, the CR Emergency Dementia Service could use more help and if you can we’d be excited to have you join. It will entail setting up community networks of local assistance throughout the country. So you don’t have to be in Costa Rica or know anything about dementia to help.

Tomorrow I’ll post some specific ideas of how you can help. Remember, “It takes a Village…”

Thank you to all of you.

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