Oasis Concept

The Oasis concept returns to friends, family, purpose, and belonging fundamentals.

In the past five years, Dr. Asselin has been busy with her team reinventing aging. The return to a village friendly living approach. Staying at home with more services in town, like an Oasis Social and Cultural Club offering a safe environment, friendship, learning and good food. Her book “New Face of the Future” is the story of how the concept was born. A traumatic fall had caused some brain injury for her husband. The current models available did not satisfy her visionary husband, and they embarked on finding a solution.

Read about the new approach, perhaps get certified to open your own Oasis. Cont

Maurice Asselin, (1935-2022) Founder of the Oasis Concept

New Book

Why:

The existence of Oases is an age-long notion.

It has long been associated with fresh water in the desert, providing vital resources for Bedouin nomads. It also represents small town squares in Mediterranean countries, like France and Italy, where people gather to play games such as “boules” or “bocce” played in the Roman Empire and spread by Italians throughout the world. The town store with a stove or now coffee shops in America. These spaces are where individuals come together to relax, share laughter, and tell stories from their week.

An oasis can even be a family garden where everyone congregates for a leisurely afternoon meal, fostering camaraderie and strengthening family ties—an enduring tradition in many households.

In my childhood, on special holidays we would walk to a garden just outside our small town. On the porch of an old log house, we would enjoy large fruit pies that my mother had baked while sitting around a long table with my grandparents, aunts, and uncles. For my husband, Moe, Christmas was the true oasis, filled with gatherings of uncles, aunts, and cousins who would sing and dance together. These joyful memories remain with us throughout our lives and inspire us to recreate them, they were a calling for both of us.

Marguerite’s Table

“As a child, my family’s approach to mealtime was without food fights. What I learned stayed with me throughout my life. I realize now that’s how both my loved ones and I have effortlessly maintained good health.”

Envision the meal you carefully prepared with love, spattered all over your kitchen!

“Eating should be fun.”  Chef José Andrés on «60 Minutes»

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Author: Nicolette Francey Asselin M.D. “Taste Buds” The Magic and Fun of Sensible Food.

Taste Buds

In this book, Nicolette Asselin explores the challenges of passing on a sound education in savory cooking early on.

2 - 1The author curtails objections faced by parents and offers a new bare answer, by describing her own experience, growing up in Switzerland, where she had developed sensible, sound and uncomplicated eating habits. In this narrative, the author offers simple but effective approaches and tactics to create healthy “Taste Buds,” for families and the medical profession.

Nicolette Francey Asselin, M.D. is a physician, writer and avid advocate for prevention. Through the course of her profession, she received honors and awards, contributed to Bestseller: “A Monster Chase.” She has participated in the International Red Cross Almanach, Prevention Magazine, the “Ultimate Guide to Women’s Health and Wellness,” “The Doctor’s Book of Home Remedies” published by the Rodale Press, and a series by GetWell Education.

In her medical career, she was affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital and Health System, an adjunct faculty at New York Medical College, and currently is involved with Getwell.org and the CorpWell Foundation on projects including education, prevention as well as preservation.

Creative Resilience

In an age in which terrorism, natural disasters, illnesses, shootings, and wide-scale industrial errors and accidents are occurring with increasing frequency, there is a tremendous need to develop ways to cope with the aftershocks. Post-traumatic illnesses are on the rise, and we need to find new ways to curtail and prevent their rise. Building resilience has become an important topic. In this story, I tried to illustrate the ways our family dealt with a personal tragedy.  Cont

'Suleika’s Shield' artist: Anne Francey
‘Suleika’s Shield’ artist: Anne Francey

 

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Dr. Asselin’s Medical Background and Experience

Dr. Asselin graduated from the University of Kentucky Medical School in 1983. She did her clinical medical training at St. Vincent’s Hospital and Mount Sinai Medical School in New York City, where she practiced for many years. She worked for Executive Health and identified a need. She became the Medical Director for Corporate Wellness.1 In her position, her primary mission was to prevent illnesses and decrease healthcare costs for employers. She was the founder of a multispecialty group association called “The Doctor’s Consultants.”2

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Oath

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  • I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
  • I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
  • I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.

—Written in 1964 by Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University, and used in many medical schools today.