Whispering
Dawn has strategically evaluated the existing and planned development
of housing options for American people 50-55 years and older who are
retired, moving toward retirement, and still working full time.
During
our analysis, we concluded that an imbalanced focus on only the bricks
and mortar housing aspect of elderhood fails to define the holistic
needs of the aging population. Their total physical, emotional,
social, intellectual, spiritual, and financial well-being is
significantly limited when only a traditional housing concept is used
as the basis for building an elderhood lifestyle.
A top-down
rather than bottoms-up approach to both planning and developing
holistic housing has been the norm in the United States. Real estate developers in concert with short-sighted governmental officials have failed to compassionately integrate elders after retirement.
Furthermore,
to view implicitly an aging person as a "discarded worker-bee" who has
completed its "function" in society, is a narrow and prejudicial "warehousing" approach to the support of our elders.
Simply, providing only the "housing component" ---a house, a condo, a room, or even a "neighborhood," ---does not adequately solve the holistic aging needs of an individual.
Whispering
Dawn, Inc. advocates a more humane and ethical approach to human
existence during elderhood.
It pragmatically deals with the challenges
of physical, mental, emotional and financial aging.
Whispering Dawn is
a unique and long-needed approach to holistic, affordable, and
self-sustainable elderhood community.
FEATURES OF WHISPERING DAWN COMMUNITY™
1. Transitional Planning Into Aging
2. Integrated Holistic Community Plan
3. Small Neighborhood Pods
4. Small Residential Footprint With Expandable Workspace
5. Financial Affordability And Self Sustainability
6. Lifestyle Emphasis Based On Mutual Caring
PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATION FOR WHISPERING DAWN
Our vision for each member is to provide a continuing opportunity to fulfill their life journey of S(s)elf discovery and recovery.
To that end, the purpose of "community" is to provide a trusting environment in which everyone may consciously support each other in daily living.
Human relationships in community are based on communications that are respectfully non-judgemental and supportive.
The core principles underlying the personal growth of each community member are
1. honoring the spiritual Oneness of all humans and natural environment while fully embracing our common reality . . . eventual physical death of all things
2. mutual caring of others and our environment in everyday living, insuring that conscientious caring, in no way, diminishes the "existence" . . . physical, emotional, spiritual, social, mental, and financial . . . of another human being
3. striving to balance the dual needs for both authentic personal expression and harmonious community relationships, within a framework of peaceful cooperation.
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