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October 2016
Dear Friends,
Family Caregivers R+R Retreat, Rolling Ridge Retreat Center,
North Andover, MA, 10/24/16
Family Caregivers North-of-Boston may enjoy a Monday, 9am- 1pm, self-care retreat on October 24, at Rolling Ridge Retreat Center in North Andover. Learn more and Register with Rolling Ridge: Family Caregivers Retreat and Renew
New Memory Café How-to Book available online & here w/me..
We have several copies of the new book; Purchase from me for $20.00 (+ shipping or pick-up locally for no added fee); 25% of the sale will help to off-set our Memory Café expenses. Background: Jytte Fogh Lokvig, Ph.D. is the author of the book, "The Alzheimer's and Memory Café: How to start and succeed with your own café," now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other booksellers. Our Topsfield Memory Café is featured on pages 57-59 of the 159 page book, as an example that no two cafés are alike. Jytte's hope is that the book "will be a catalyst toward the goal of cafés in every community in the country."
Accessible Gardens ~ Respite, Recreation, Healing, Hope
Shown above: False Solomon Seal bears bright red berries in fall.
Upcoming Stroll & Memory Café
NEXT SUNDAY STROLL & MEMORY CAFE:
October 9, 2016, 11am - 2pm
A reservation is required. No charge. Contributions welcome.
Learn about our Memory Café in Topsfield, MA >
Find a Memory Café around Greater Boston >
SEEKING VOLUNTEERS AGE 14+ (hospitality hosts, activity leaders, horticulture helpers...)
If interested, please e-mail or call me to discuss, and/or:
Learn more about volunteer opportunities >
Our Sunday Strolls and Memory Café serves independent wheelchair users, family care-givers and care-receivers living with:
- Neurodegenerative Disease (Alzheimer's/Dementia, Parkinson's, ALS, MS...)
- Developmental Disability (i.e. Traumatic Brain Injury, Down Syndrome)
- Terminal Illness
Saving Lives ~ Family Caregivers
2-HOUR GUIDED RESPITE RETREATS
Are you a weary family caregiver living North of Boston? If yes, you may enjoy a one-on-one mini-retreat at our home, Rest.Stop.Ranch. Taking 2 hours away from your to-dos might help restore your body-mind-spirit in ways unexpected and wonderful.
Learn more about Respite Retreats >
Moving forward with a listening heart,
vision, inquiry, and action,
~ Mary
email: mary@marymacmissions.com
mobile: 978-887-4202
local: 202 Haverhill Road, Topsfield, MA 01983
global: marymacmissions.com
I am available for speaking, training, and retreat engagements. Please e-mail me to discuss your future planning (caregiver support groups and conferences, professional meetings and continuing education, and day/weekend retreats).
Consider how you might support- This Week - a nearby family-with-dementia you know.
- Might you invite someone with dementia to your home for a cup of tea?
- Might you provide an hour of respite for a weary caregiver?
- Might you lend a hand with a maintenance job around their home?
Our Practice
Please click on one of the images below to learn more about how we rest, dance, and pray with the long-term-care topic:
  
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our vision:
Care givers and receivers feel and know the presence of caring communitee companions throughout and beyond the long-term-care journey; they are empowered to love themselves and each other in balanced ways; they experience universal comfort, respite and recreation in local natural places of hospitality.
our values:
Creative, Accessible, Sustainable
our mission statement:
Champions for caregivers and adults living with extended illness, we: meet people where they are (locally, financially, physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, spiritually); provide positive experiences, strategies, practices, coping methods and skills through the cycle of health, illness, loss, recovery and renewal; raise public awareness and facilitate communitee alliances between individuals, families, businesses and communitee organizations to reach, include and care for care givers and receivers who become marginalized because of the systemic effects of illness; lead and participate in research that aims to understand the effectiveness of care giver and receiver health programs; support research that aims to illuminate and eliminate the root causes of disease; and adapt to best serve current care giver and receiver needs.
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