Family engagement in long-term elder care
Family involvement improved communication, boosted satisfaction, and built a stronger, more supportive care community.
Client:
Larry Lawson
Location:
489 Depot road midland
Date:
September 10, 2024
01. The Challenge
When our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.
02. The Solution
True commitment reveals itself not in the avoidance of hardship, but in the willingness to endure pain that leads to no immediate reward, simply because love demands it. Families may face relentless routines, physical exhaustion, and emotional drain—not to gain personal pleasure, but to uphold the well-being of a parent or grandparent.
One who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure.
laborious physical exercise.
One who avoids a pain that produces no resultant
which of us ever undertakes laborious
Avoids pleasure itself, because it is.
02. The Result
Because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself.
