THIRD AGE: Home help just a phonecall away for the elderly

THREE years ago, Evelyn Wainwright’s husband had a stroke. As she too is disabled, suddenly changing a light bulb or fixing the smoke alarm became impossible tasks.

THIRD AGE: Home help just a phonecall away for the elderly

Until she discovered Age Action’s Care and Repair service.

“All the jobs my husband used to do, the service does now. We took it all for granted, but now it is not possible for either of us to do them. There is no way that he could stand on a ladder or even a chair and replace a light bulb and for that reason alone they are simply fantastic,’’ says Evelyn (pictured above), who contracted polio at the age of three.

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