Lisa was an unlikely heroine to awe the septuagenarian women basking around the pool at her father’s senior living community in South Florida. An observant Jew working as a high-tech executive in Israel, Lisa was there only to help her ailing, widowed father Stan. He had been battling cancer for years, but now the disease was spreading, and he needed his daughter’s help. Stan had been an enthusiastic golfer, playing twice a week with his friends. But at 89 years of age, he had started to lose his balance and feared that a single swing could topple him. Reluctantly he traded the golf course for the sofa opposite his TV. Lisa, a fitness freak, insisted that he exercise. She would have been happy to take long walks with him, but the summer heat in Florida precluded that, so Lisa took her father to the community’s giant pool and together they walked back and forth in the water, cool and limber. It was a perfect solution. Read More
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