Elaine R. Alder

ELAINE REISER ALDER is a freelance writer and a correspondent for the Herald journal in Logan, Utah, where she writes feature and human interest stories. She and her husband Douglas are parents of four children. She is compassionate service leader in her ward and serves in several volunteer capacities including at a local nursing home.

The Nursing Home

Articles/Essays – Volume 19, No. 3

My mother was eighty-four, a widow of six months, and badly crippled with arthritis in the fall of 1981. She was also virtually blind. For the past six months, her eight children had watched anxiously…