Older Women Team Up to Face Future Together. Jane Gross.
by Gross, Jane; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 47Family. Publisher: New York Times, 2004ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Friendship | Households | Legal documents | Older women | Retirement -- Planning | Single people -- Dwellings | Single womenDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Michele Smith and Jenny Young, the best of friends, were in their mid-50's when fear of illness and incapacity set them to joking, bleakly, about side-by-side rocking chairs at an old folks' home. Instead, they decided to pool their resources, build a home in a gentle climate, divide the chores, buy insurance for long-term home health care and meanwhile enjoy the pleasures of female friendship." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article investigates why "this friends-helping-friends model for aging is gaining momentum among single, widowed or divorced women of a certain age."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Older Women Team Up to Face Future Together, Feb. 27, 2004; pp. A1+.
"Michele Smith and Jenny Young, the best of friends, were in their mid-50's when fear of illness and incapacity set them to joking, bleakly, about side-by-side rocking chairs at an old folks' home. Instead, they decided to pool their resources, build a home in a gentle climate, divide the chores, buy insurance for long-term home health care and meanwhile enjoy the pleasures of female friendship." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article investigates why "this friends-helping-friends model for aging is gaining momentum among single, widowed or divorced women of a certain age."
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