Back in the ’70s, Tamara Bliss and her friends joined baby-sitting pools to take care of one another’s children.
Today, those children are in their 40s, and Bliss and some of those same friends are pooling their resources to take care of themselves as they head into their senior years.
“There may be good reasons to move to a retirement community,’’ she declares, “but not being able to get that big trash can from the basement to the front walk should not be one of them.’’
Bliss is the president of Newton at Home, one of a burgeoning number of organizations that aim to help people age in place. They envision a combination of paid and volunteer services to see to the practical, health, and social needs of their members…….
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New programs help elderly stay in their own homes - The Boston Globe
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