Wisdom Eldercare

My mother and sister both died within the past year, after long illnesses which required round-the-clock home care, which was provided by Wisdom Eldercare of Chicago. The care they got from both the on-site caregivers and the case manager was consistently professional, reliable and caring, which was reassuring for me, since I live in Seattle and could not directly oversee their care myself. All the caregivers were efficient in administering to my mother's and sister's medical and bodily needs, and some gave comfort and attention beyond what would be expected of people just competently performing a job. They became friends. My mother was bedridden during her final years and could not even read for any length of time, so her main occupation was watching TV with the caregivers. On my visits to her I would see them watching movies together on Turner Classic and commenting on the plots and the actors. My mother, being a generation or two older, would share stories of the stars who brought her back to her memories of bygone days, and the caregivers -- film buffs, apparently -- seemed charmed by this personal history of the Silver Screen. Such scenes were a comfort that I took back to Seattle after my visits, knowing that my mother had this resource of pleasure to fill her days.