Circle of Care Point Roberts

We are a town of about 1300 people who are blessed to live surrounded by the Salish Sea, amongst soaring old growth trees and sharing a border with our sister city, Tsawwassen. At this point, about 600 of our year-round residents are over the age of 60, and within 5 years over half of us will be over 65. Whereas we live here because it feels like paradise, we have no medical services except for a part time clinic staffed by a wonderful Nurse Practitioner and some very competent Emergency Medical Techs who work for our excellent volunteer Fire Department. There isn't a physician, a dentist, nor a nursing home/retirement facility. We are a healthy, hardy lot, but sooner or later quite a few of us will be in need of in-home care. Currently, when someone needs help with an injury or an ailment or recuperation from surgery, their only option is to become resident in one of the facilities in Bellingham, two border crossings and an hour away. Seeing "the writing on the wall" and wanting to avert a slow emergency, (which some communities are calling”The Silver Tsunami") a few of us banded together about 18 months ago to organize our community so that we could provide volunteers and professionals to help our seniors and families in need stay here in their homes. We are calling ourselves Circle of Care and we are raising funds for several needs--first of all to establish an educational fund so that local residents can get trained and certified to provide skilled in home care and secondly, to provide financial support for any of our indigent residents who will not be able to afford this service in their homes and finally, to have an emergency fund for hospice care. Your contribution to Circle of Care is tax deductible. Please support us as we support our community. For more information please call 360.945.5222 or email at [email protected]