Meet Angil Tarach-Ritchey RN, GCN, Author, Speaker,
Consultant and Senior Advocate.
In her book, Behind the Old Face, Angil shares her experience of every
senior who has been unheard, neglected, abused, and tossed aside as something
less than a person, like you or me, but with many more years of wisdom,
struggles, accomplishments, achievements and service to you, and I, our
generation, and those after us.
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| Carlton, the inspiration for Behind The Old Face |
One day, if we’re blessed enough to live to old
age, we will be seniors, hoping we will be heard, validated, respected and
cared for. We’ll hope we’ve made some kind of contribution while we were here,
and those that look at us will see Behind the Old Face.
Behind the Old Face is her vision to change the perception
of seniors, particularly in the medical community. The inspiration for the book is my late
friend Carlton, and nearly 30 years of joy, and tears working with
seniors. My goal is to change the thoughts,
hearts, and minds of those working in healthcare, which will improve the
dignity, respect and care of our society’s elders.
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Watch this video and you will be touched.
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As you read Behind the Old Face and the stories of the
people in it, you will and should experience a myriad of emotions. Angil shares
amazing stories she has ever heard from the lives of seniors she has been
privileged enough to know and spend time with.
These aren’t famous people with newsworthy stories that you
would think are amazing, these are everyday stories. These are the life stories
of your parents, grandparents, neighbors, aunts and uncles, the old man driving
too slow, the grey old woman that you have to wait on in the store, the patient
you have to feed, or change, the Alzheimer’s patient that is difficult, and the
dementia patient that asks the same question over and over. These people are
us.
They are us with many more years of life behind them. You
will read about their challenges, dreams, achieved or not, their contributions
and accomplishments, their service to our country, or to a cause, the
devastations and joy they have experienced, their thoughts, feelings, and
opinions, and their points of view of what it’s like to be a senior today.
Angils Senior Living and Care Vision
If communities would take time to develop and organize they
could answer so many needs of aging adults.
Many aging adults stay healthy and active. Others are not as
fortunate.
The inherent thing that binds us is a need to feel valued, a
need to have a purpose, and the need to feel a sense of belonging. Many aging
adults are socially isolated and suffer from depression. Having a sense of
value, belonging and community would reduce depression. Active, healthy aging
adults want to remain that way and giving them a sense of purpose and
fulfilling work would help them remain healthy for a longer period of time. For
so many, it's when life gets stagnant and unsociable that they begin to
decline.
To learn more... go to Behind The Old Face
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