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Harvest Senior Living: Plant Kindness, Harvest Love
Plant Kindness, Harvest Love
Harvest Senior Living providing assisted living with compassion
By Blake Ashley Frino-Gerl
Providing compassionate care is essential to the Fario family behind Harvest Senior Living in Paso Robles.
Alvaro and Diorene Fario started Harvest Senior Living six years ago with one motto in mind, “Plant kindness, harvest love.”
After leaving Brazil in his early 20s, Alvaro started several of his own businesses from the ground up in Southern California. Later he started a family with his wife Diorene, who is also from Brazil. While working in an upscale hotel in Beverly Hills for 10 years, his daughter was in Paso Robles running her own residential care for the elderly home and felt that it would be a good fit for her parents — they agreed.
“We are very well known for the one-onone [care] that we provide,” Alvaro says when referring to what sets them apart from other residential homes.
Alvaro and Diorene strive to only have six residents in the home.
Alvaro explains they, “personalize as much as possible and we get to really know the residents and their families.”
The Farios have two Harvest Senior Living home locations, both nestled in a peaceful neighborhood with beautiful landscaping, with comfortable surroundings.
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Comfort and trust in care is essential. In knowing that residents may initially have a difficult time adjusting to their new home, Alvaro understands their struggle and is able show empathy all the while investing the time to ease into their new surroundings.
He knows each client may feel sadness or anger over “losing everything — their independency, the privilege to drive,” and management of “their money, and now they are in a house with lots of strangers.”
He remembers one gentleman coming to live in the home, who wasn’t exactly a fan of Alvaro at first.
But with Alvaro’s background in ministry, he understood, “you cannot resist love, and that was what I did — I loved him back.”
Then one day, when Alvaro was called to help the man get up from the floor, he got close to him, and suddenly the man said, “‘Since we are so close … we should kiss,’ and that broke the ice,” Alvaro remembers.
Their relationship grew after that moment. The man would later thank and praise Alvaro and eventually tell him that he loves him.
Alvaro says that instance made him cry and gave him the “power to keep on doing what I knew best — care and love them.”
At the center, Diorene, who has a law degree from Brazil, provides the business and administrative sense as she earned her associate’s degree in business in the U.S. Alvaro enjoys that she utilizes her knowledge and does the business side of the work, as he does what he loves — caring for people.
He says, “The operation, the everyday life with the residents is like getting food for my body and soul; to know their life story and to listen to them.”
While he gives to the residents, Alvaro finds a sense of fulfillment and great satisfaction.
The friendly, fully-trained staff knows the techniques and therapies to help resident seniors thrive in their new living environment. Social activities are part of daily life to provide a sense of camaraderie and friendship between fellow residents, but to also provide wellness through learning and engagement. Amidst the 24-hour care, residents are welcomed and encouraged to be a part of social and interactive activities and live the fruitful life they deserve, without the obligation to keep up with chores or everyday nuisance of household tasks.
Alvaro really wants the residents to know that they really care. The is something to be said about the importance of trust in any new situation — if you feel cared for, trust can grow, and comfort is then inevitable.
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