Older Women Team Up to Face Future Together
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.