“Being surrounded by your family. And making the adjustments to come here. Sometimes it’s hard. But thank God for places like this and the places they’re getting ready for us if we go there.”
(Dorothy Jones, 79, homemaker, of Syracuse )
“Surrounded by my husband and my four boys and lots of activities. And able to drive the car and just live a wonderful life, which I did live. ”
(Millie McAuliffe, 89, worked for Liberty Mutual in Boston, native of Syracuse)
“A sense of home. It’s a sense of daily living as opposed to a medical model of care.”
(Sue Williams, nursing director, Loretto)
“Home is a social construction. Home is the shelter of each other. When we think about home, it is the safe place where we are sheltered and where we give shelter to people we care about.”
(Dr. Bill Thomas, creator of the Green Houses Project)
(Michael Contino is a senior broadcast journalism and international relations major).
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