Who We Are

Family Lives is an organization of patients, families, nurses, therapists, staff, supervisors, and administrators.

We understand care to be assistance in the achievement of the ordinary life. The ordinary life is the life with access to the good things taken for granted in the ordinary life:

Family.  Home.  Membership.  Friends.  Philosophy.  Religion.  Work.  Safety.  Security.  Education.  Respect.  Honesty.  Fairness.  Decision-Making.  Access.  Health.

The good things of life are neither claimed nor demanded.  They are achieved.  They are achieved by being someone valued in the society in which he or she lives his or her ordinary life. The caregiver nurtures who the person being taken care of is so that he or she will be someone valued in society.

We understand health to be a limited state of being established for human beings by nature. The health care professional nurtures the patient so that nature can make the person well. The health care professional does not control the patient so that he or she makes the patient well. There are inherent limits on the health care profession’s control of health.

Contact Us

We are happy to listen to and speak with you.

Address

36 West Main Street
Westborough, MA 01581

Phone

Phone: 508-475-0493
Fax: 508-475-0410

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Work Cited

The Training Institute For Human Service Planning, Leadership And Change Agentry. “Overview Of ‘PASSING’: A Tool For Analyzing Service Quality According To Social Role Valorization Criteria.”

Wolfensberger, Wolf, Thomas, Susan, & Guy Caruso. “Some of the Universal ‘Good Things of Life’ Which the Implementation of Social Role Valorization Can be Expected to Make More Accessible to Devalued People.” The International Social Role Valorization Journal. Volume 2, Number 2, 1996.