Include.Nurse.com – Cathryn Domrose
When Suzanne L. Dibble, RN, DNSc, professor emerita of the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, was looking for assisted living care for her elderly father about four years ago, she was also thinking about her own future.
She and Jeanne DeJoseph, CNM, PhD, FAAN, her partner of 24 years, were both nurses. They knew the importance of planning for a time when they could no longer manage a large house in the suburbs.
But the assisted living communities Dibble looked at near her San Francisco Bay Area home did not seem welcoming to her. They felt stiff and formal. The women wore dresses to dinner every night. Brochures featured only heterosexual couples.