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Welcome to Neighborhood Care Partners
– I hope you find something useful here. This site was originally created in 2014 as a place to stash favorite resources for my own work as a nurse practitioner providing house calls for seniors in the Metro Detroit area.
– Over time, it has become a resource for others and I still add in the best tips shared with me by colleagues and savvy caregivers.
– My dear grandmother Malinda Pauline Westmoreland took me “visiting” to make rounds on the vulnerable elders in Melvindale and Dearborn Heights, Michigan. No one ever asked her to, she just saw a need and responded.
– Besides food – she learned young how to cook for a crowd on a cast iron stove and always made extra – she brought me along. I learned early that people “up in years” have the best stories as I listened at their kitchen table or on their plastic covered couches. She was not a nurse or physician, but her visits still brought much healing and comfort.
– Thirty-plus years later, those kitchen tables and couches are now my work place, as I provide house calls for seniors who have a hard time getting to a doctor’s office. I am so grateful to have learned at my grandmother’s elbow the importance of our elders’ wisdom and experience, and that if you listen closely – they may be contagious.
Donna
Donna Westmoreland, MSN, FNP-BC, ACHPN
Family & Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner
Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matthew 22:37-39
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