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[quote=Anonymous]Church.

Really.   My 80 year old mother is so flipping active in her church, and the parishioners take care of one another.  My mom drives her 92 year old friend to doctor's appointments, for example, because that 92 year old doesn't have family close by.  The ministers come visit you in the hospital quite often, and they often organize a group of congregants to take turns visiting on the ill or infirm.  They really take care of one another.  Heck, my mom event got me to go shovel the driveway of an 85 year old woman who broke her hip going to get mail, because her driveway was icy, and her 87 year old husband has dementia.   And I was happy to do so.   So it's not just like it's the congregants themselves who are helping each other out. They pull in their families and their resources as well.

I'm sure any house of worship is like this.   I only mention church because we are Christian.   My mother didn't join a church until my dad passed away and my mom was 65.  I am not active.  My life is crazy busy right now, but I do plan to go back, perhaps after my kid goes away to college.  They aren't perfect.  You have dysfunction just like you do in a family.  But they look after you like family as well.

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