This article originally appeared in the June 2021 News in Brief from the Resource Center for Religious Institutes (RCRI) and is posted with permission.
As the leader of a religious congregation, have you ever found yourself in the painful position of making the difficult decision that your senior sisters can no longer safely live in their current home and need to move to a new home better suited to their evolving health needs?
The new homes we find (or build) for our loved ones are often inviting and beautiful places. Most often we move our loved one(s) to places that have been designed to meet the needs of older persons and offer a myriad of opportunities for activities that were not available to our elders in their previous residences.