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...Afghanistan shown here is a place where the Red Cross grotesquely air-drops replacement legs for the thousands whose limbs have been lost to land mines, and would-be recipients argue vehemently about their fit; a place where, when Nafas becomes ill, the local healer--who turns out, strangely, to be a black American--can examine her only by peering through an eyehole cut in a blanket; a place where one of her guides is an angry, untrustworthy child who has been expelled from an Islamic school whose only text is the Koran...
Cohen points to studies showing that, unlike their younger family members, the elderly who suffer from stress are more likely to become ill. But families can help their aged relatives battle anxiety by keeping in close touch, asking pointed questions and getting help for them if necessary. Lebow suggests families buy greeting cards and send one a week to aging relatives, and encourage them to try e-mail (my mother has become an e-mail enthusiast). And the conversations about Sept. 11 can be rewarding for young and old: many people of the WW II generation report feeling that their...
...decision to remain has been made easier by the proliferation of retirement communities in four-season markets. For instance, the Del Webb Corp., based in Phoenix, Ariz., a developer of eight upscale retirement complexes, most in warmer climates, opened a community in Huntley, Ill., in 1998. Since then it has developed a facility in Romeoville, Ill., and the first residents are expected to move in during spring 2002, says Dave Schreiner, vice president of Del Webb's marketing and strategic-planning group. Another development is being built in Fredericksburg, Va., outside Washington...
...active seniors' environment and proximity to their daughter that enticed Mitchell and Norma Gattas to relocate from De Kalb, Ill., to Crest Hill, Ill., about an hour away. In September they moved into a one-story single-family home in a community for residents 55 and older called Carillon Lakes. The Gattas now live just 15 minutes away from their daughter, son-in-law and four-year-old granddaughter, whom they see almost every day. "Who needs Florida or Arizona?" says Norma, 71, a retired accounting assistant. "We can see our daughter any time we want, and we have every...
...same was true for Rich and Mary Ellen Wholey of Wheaton, Ill., grandparents of 15 kids ages 3 months to 16 years. They toyed with the idea of moving to Arizona after snowbirding there for two winters. Instead, they bought a home in Carillon Lakes, 20 miles away. All but one of their five children live nearby. The Wholeys' nephew was killed in the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, making them look at their decision to remain near their kids in a new light. "After going to our nephew's memorial service, we realized just how much...