A voice for voiceless seniors

Training Centre

Caring for Seniors with loss of autonomy & cognitive impairment

Founder's Message . . .

Dear Guest:

I feel privileged to welcome you to our website, which is also welcoming you to our “home”. Isn't home where the heart is? Given all the demands of today's hectic lifestyle, I truly appreciate your attention and recognize that you obviously have the spark of compassion, so we already have something in common. Therefore, I greet you with our flower of compassion, which is traveling around the world.

Compassion, which I describe as the passion of loving unconditionally, empowers us to create holistic ways of caring for those who are suffering. As we walk side by side, you and I can make a difference. We both carry a similar passion at heart - compassionate care. Our mission of compassion for people in need offers us an opportunity to communicate, care and create a better place to live. Together, we share openness with the world and with every human being.

At the Paré Labrecque Training Centre, our challenge is to empower caregivers to care for seniors in loss of autonomy with a Congruent Compassionate Approach™ (CCA™). It's hard to believe that many of our voiceless loved ones experience solitude, abandonment, neglect and even abuse because they are cognitively impaired due to Alzheimer's disease or similar illnesses.

I have always thought of life as a book, with every chapter being a phase or time in our life to be cherished and held sacred. Aging gracefully is a beautiful conclusion to our bestseller. But, what happens to the final chapter in the book of someone who has Alzheimer's disease? Can we let the many chapters of a wonderful life be erased with a dreadful humiliating ending? Everyone, especially seniors who have already contributed their fair share to society, deserves to be cared for with respect and dignity. We must be gentle with our elders at all stages of their difficult journey through this cruel illness. Our gentleness and our CCA™ in care will enable us to write for them a peaceful and healing conclusion. Let us together, be co-authors of compassion.

Though my personal calling, as founder of the Centre and the CCA™, is to be a voice for voiceless seniors, I recognize that the CCA™ is universal and can be of great benefit to all who require and give care. I hope you will continue to “walk the talk” with me, and help spread the message of a Congruent Compassion Approach™ to care around the world.

Compassionately yours,

Micheline Paré

 Founder and Executive Director
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