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Home at last: Innovative assisted living center allows Haines seniors to ‘age in place’
HAINES – Where do you want to spend the last years of your life? For 86-year-old Haines resident Lucy Harrell, the answer to that question is easy: Haines, Alaska, her home for the past 24 years. Read more…
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Lucy’s Story
“Some years ago, amid all my ordinary days and usual activities, I had a most unusual urge: To carefully and honestly consider what would be likely to happen to me in the last years of my life. I had to face some gnarly facts: My inheritance is to live to be 90 plus, with advanced senile dementia or Alzheimer’s. I do not want to be a burden to my daughter in her senior years, so I will have to find the kind of institution that I like…. Download PDF…