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Article: Seniors Team Up for a More Healthy Future; Innovative Health Care Co- op Marks 10 Years of Self-Help by Planning Additional Services
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 18, 2000
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They never intended to be health care trailblazers.
But when the small team of seniors set forth from Annapolis in
search of a community-based home health program formed by and for
seniors, they came back empty-handed. Although they looked hard in
Florida, Arizona and other predictable places, in the late 1980s
there simply weren't any blueprints to follow or projects to emulate.
So they began designing their own program, well aware that its
success could make a crucial difference as they aged. The idea was to
find a way to provide services right in their community that would
help people remain in their homes if they became frail or ill. No one
wanted to move to a nursing facility. Still, ...