One woman’s advice to seniors living alone: Have a plan
I got a phone call recently from our now retired Wilmington Town Nurse, Jennifer Fitzgerald, with a suggestion for this column. She is concerned about older people living alone in the valley and what might happen to them in an emergency. Apparently, a person was found dead in an apartment in Wilmington and had, it appears, been there undiscovered for several days. It got tricky because no one had a key to the apartment or the phone numbers for relatives. This kind of a mess could happen to anyone of any age who lives alone.
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