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Walking out of the doctor's office to her car, Clare Marie Ackroyd slipped on wet grass, fell and broke her right shoulder. When she got home from the emergency room later that day, her arm was in a sling, and she couldn't dress herself, fix a meal or even sign a check. That's an inconvenient situation for anyone, but for someone who lives alone, it can be a total nightmare. Ackroyd, 62, is divorced and has only one child, who lives in England, but her eight-week convalescence has been far easier than she expected. Ackroyd lives...
Ackroyd and her shoulder notwithstanding, current elder-cohousing residents tend to be healthy, active and independent, so no one is 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...
...meeting's end, several of the pastors said they wanted to pray for my healing. They placed their hands on my shoulder and called on God to hear their prayers on my behalf. I listened and loved it and said a prayer of my own: that I would have the courage to tell them what was really going on at the White House...
...Where the tie does not go is over the shoulder...
...million. “We are not turning our attention away from Lebanon,” Abercrombie-Winstanley said repeatedly. While President Bush blamed “Hezbollah’s unprovoked terrorist attacks on Israel” for sparking the Lebanese conflict, audience members questioned whether Israel should shoulder some culpability too. Olivia S. Shabb ’08 asked whether the capture of two Israeli soldiers justified the destruction that followed. “There is nothing that explains or excuses huge loss of life in that manner,” Abercrombie-Winstanley said. Adding that...