Word: infirmity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...there's one thing older folks are said to dread, it's the prospect of a retirement community--that residential departure lounge from this life to whatever comes next. Filled with infirm neighbors and too-little stimulation, they are widely seen as one step above a nursing home--if only because you maintain your own little home--but not much more. That, at least, is the way they used...
...funding, a nervous freshman could show up to a sweatbox in Mather, guzzle a Coke and vodka cocktail, and grind their frustrations away on the sweet shanks of an upperclass flooze. Fun for Harvard upperclassmen—fun for Harvard underclassmen’s older brother—appears infirm but reasonably healthy, but sources within University Hall say it’s just a matter of time before he gets offed. “The people who own the bars in the Square, they’ve got families, don’t they?” said...
...spend nearly all his time traveling or staying at a second home in Brownsville, Texas. "He wasn't the kind of guy you worried about being alone at Christmas," says Fisher, 49, who lives in Grand Rapids, Mich. But in January, her father fell seriously ill. Eighty-three and infirm, he has returned to Michigan, where Fisher, after cutting her work hours and income, helps care for him. Her husband, she says, "has been supportive. But you sort of ask, 'How many years can we do this...
...sure how the concept will work when increasing numbers of residents become frail and in need of assistance. Advocates say that when residents get sick, they will pay for and arrange their own care but that the communal-living arrangement may offer an advantage since infirm members could share the expense of hiring a health-care provider to tend to several of them. And, of course, members will continue to enjoy the support and physical presence of people who have become part of their lives. "I expect to live and die in the community I took part in creating," says...
...Israeli jets flattened three entire neighborhoods, around 35 houses in all. At least 35 people were still believed to be lying dead under the rubble when TIME visited the village. Only 50 to 60 people remain out of a population of around 8,000. These are the elderly or infirm whom Hizballah has grouped together into three or four houses where they are looked after. There is no electricity in the village, but a small generator provides enough power to pump water from a well. The water is sterilized by filling plastic bottles and then keeping...