Gross, Jane,

Older Women Team Up to Face Future Together. Jane Gross. - New York Times, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 47, Family, 1522-3213; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. 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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Friendship
Households
Legal documents
Older women
Retirement--Planning
Single people--Dwellings
Single women

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