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After a fall at home turned Marilyn McNeal’s life upside-down, she tried to focus on healing. “I broke my hip and my femur bone,” she says. “I had to have an operation, and then I had some health complications. So I’ve come a long way.”…

Few bonds are stronger than sisterhood, and few sisters are closer than Gerrie Natelborg and Tini DeBoer, two residents at Park Place of St. John. …

Joe’s delivery is impeccable, the comic timing of a seasoned performer. As he sits in his Park Place of Elmhurst apartment and tells a story of his childhood, he interrupts himself to ask, “Did you hear the one about the rope?” Then adding, “Just skip it.”…

When Dan Wolma moved to Royal Park Place in 2019, he was recently widowed—only a few days earlier. He certainly wasn’t looking to marry. In fact, he wasn’t looking for much of anything. He had been the sole caretaker for his ailing wife for the last seven years, and after his wife passed away, he says he “had a bit of a pity party.”…