Tag: aging
Mary Roby The stress of living with her son and daughter-in-law made Mary Roby’s blood sugar spike. But when she began her search for an independent senior housing community, affordable and nice never seemed to come in the same package. Roby, who is 80, said she looked around quite a bit. A one-room place in t…
After his wife of 36 years died from cancer, Dick St. Lawrence experienced something new: loneliness. “Worst feeling in the world,” St. Lawrence, 81, said about Linda St. Lawrence’s death in the winter of 2014. Like many widows and widowers before him, he had to build a new life for himself, despite having the comfort…
