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A Good Life
for You and Your Relative
with a Disability
by Al Etmanski
328 pages, paperback
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A Good Life for You and Your Relative With a Disability is an inspirational guide to rethinking disability and the value of people with disability in a caring society. It provides families, caregivers and those worried about the well being of people with disabilities with insights, stories of inspiration and practical advice. It offers a step by step guide to creating a plan for the future which provides for the safety, security and well being of people with disabilities.
An excerpt from A Good Life:
This is not your typical book about people with disabilities. Rather it is a gentle nudge into a new way of thinking.
"A Good Life" offers a very different perspective about what is truly important when contemplating the future of people with disabilities.
"A Good Life" catapults over the traditional supports and services available to most people with disabilities and suggests another approach.
We write as parents who have a family member with a disability. We also write as founders of a unique civic organization that has struck a resonant chord with families everywhere.
Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN) is nestled in a community near the beautiful city of Vancouver on the northwest coast of North America. We have been struggling for over twelve years with the challenges of creating a safe and secure future for our own sons and daughters with disabilities when we die.
We want to create a new team - a team that places your relative, their friends, neighbors and family at the heart of the solution. We want to create a new question. Instead of, "What variety of services and programs will my relative need?" the question becomes, "What is a good life?"
A good life may be a mystery but it is a delicious mystery. It's not the kind of mystery that can't be solved, but a mystery that must be approached with the heart and soul, not just the head. A mystery best approached with curiosity and openness, not logic and certainty.
And in the approach we will merge with fellow travelers who are there for a variety of reasons but with the same motivation. And we will most certainly encounter a path, well worn and ancient. The path of pilgrims. The way home.
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