2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide – Letters-from-the-Heart.com

We featured Letters-from-the-Heart in our 2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide.

Letters-from-the-Heart is a subscription program that offers higly personalised letters for our most elderly family members. The subscription is for one year; all letters are hand-written and sent out on a monthly basis. It’s the perfect Valentine’s gift for Mom and Grandma’!

The Story and Mission: My words would probably not do justice so I am going to share with you a letter written by Ms. Terry Rose, the Founder of Letters-from-the-Heart.

“Dear friend:

When you are the caretaker of an elderly family member, you become consumed by doctors and medications, overwhelmed by the everyday tasks of bathing, dressing, and feeding, not to mention sleep-deprived due to the stress of working and caring for the other members of your family!

When you are the long-distance adult child of an aging parent, you have the added burden of travel, finding the right eldercare facility, and guilt on top of everything else.

So, it’s understandable that you are not thinking in terms of your elder loved ones losing their spouses and long-time friends, their loneliness, or their feelings of loss of things most familiar to them.

These are the generations who are not computer literate, not sending text messages, and whose disabilities often prevent them from even the simplest efforts at maintaining peer relationships and friendships.

That’s why I created Letters-from-the-Heart™.

This program is not a replacement for family caring but, instead, an enhancement to it. Everyone, no matter how old, needs friendship; a peer relationship they may call their own and a friendship that differs from family caring because it is not focused upon healthcare, but rather upon “heartcare”.

If you are anything like me, you struggle every Mother’s Day and Father’s Day trying to think of a meaningful gift. As we approach these special holidays, honor your parent with the gift of Letters-from-the-Heartâ„¢ and bring the joy of “heartcare” into their lives.

Sincerely,

Terry”