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Article: More men giving care to elderly parents
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 15, 1997
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Ted Weiner noticed the frayed edges of the old undershirt his
father was wearing the other day and gently reminded him to throw it
out as he rummaged in his father's bureau for new ones.
And, as he does every week when he visits his 97-year-old father
at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged in Roslindale, he
carefully cleaned the older man's electric razor.
Like other residents of the center, his father, Nathan Weiner, a
former life insurance administrator, is virtually blind now and
lonely since his wife of 75 years died last year. But even seasoned
social workers there are touched by the steadfast devotion of his
70-year-old son, who belies the stereotype that middle-aged women ...