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You will find senior citizens holding elected offices, running community businesses, and providing leadership for local church and civic groups. You will also find them living alone in run-down homes where the wind whistles through the cracks and visitors rarely cross the threshold. Some lie ill in area nursing homes or hospitals; others are still competing in local jog-athons, etc.
When older people need help because of health problems, disabilities, financial troubles, or emotional difficulties, that help most often comes from caring families. In many cases, however, there is no family or the family members live far away. Some families are limited in the help they can provide because of their own economic problems; other families simply don’t care. In such cases, older people need somewhere else to turnfor assistance, #
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