Light Heart Foundation

for current information on Beth Carrigans Legacy campaign and upcoming events. Using U.S. census data, researchers estimate that every day this year, 7,900 people will celebrate their 60th birthday. The older populationpersons 65 years or oldernumbered 36.3 million in 2004 representing 12.4% of the U.S. population or about one in every eight Americ... ans. By 2030, this will grow to 20% of the population, more than twice their number in 2000. We are greeting this Wave of Wisdom together with intelligence, responsibility and joy! Light Heart Foundation began as a seed of compassion and curiosity in the heart of a little girl many years ago. When it was just the right time, that seed pushed forward and revealed a light that would illuminate many hearts and grow a Vision strong and beautiful. The Light Heart Foundation recently rented a storage container from GP Storage Containers , and when they found out more information about our cause they gave us a 20 ft storage container for free. GP Storage Containers is now a major supporter for our cause, and is just one of the many stories of companies helping out in any way they can. Realizing the Vision of Light Heart is now a collective community endeavor and joins a nation-wide movement to passionately address the isolation of our Elders and revive our communities. Frail, slumped over in a wheel chair in the corridor of a sterile looking convalescent hospital, he could have been a poster boy for the stereotype of the elderly. Nurses and aides pass by with an obligatory How are you today, Morris? He did not respond. Pulling up a chair so we could make eye contact, I introduced myself and asked him how he was. I received a response, not a complaint, and that began a conversation that was to last more than an hour.On my way out, I shared a few of his wonderful stories with a nurse. She said I would have never guessed that about Morris. Of course she wouldnt, there was little time in her difficult schedule to do what a volunteer could do to sincerely inquire and really ...Read More