1 month ago
The Time of Guests and Accepted Invitations – An Unexpected Gift
About 250 people live in our continuing care retirement community, in six apartment buildings and two nursing facilities. Now, in pandemic mode, you don’t see many residents…
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2 months ago
How We Take Extra Care for Dogs – and Each Other – in My CCRC
Before the recent restrictions on socializing, every night after dinner in my community’s main building, an older gentleman sat in a wing chair opposite the central elevator, holding a bag of dog treats…
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3 months ago
Second Thoughts About Not Cooking – a Tale from Our Continuing Care Retirement Community
One reason I’d wanted to move into my continuing care retirement community was to stop cooking dinner. I’d grown tired of planning meals, dashing to the supermarket for missing ingredients…
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4 months ago
What the 90-Year-olds Taught Me
One evening after we’d been living at The Terraces for a few weeks, my husband looked around the dining room and said, “These people are all old. How do you feel about it?”
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5 months ago
I’m Not Ready – But We’re Moving to a CCRC
We entered the lobby – armchairs upholstered in mid-century colors; a painting of a rearing white horse; a row of walkers parked along a wall; a foursome of bent…
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