Felice J. Freyer

With elder homelessness rising, PACE programs funded by Medicaid and Medicare secure housing and health care for low-income seniors, seen in Rhode Island.

Rachel Nassif, day center director at the PACE Organization of Rhode Island, with program participant Roberta Rabinovitz.

BRISTOL, R.I. — At age 82, Roberta Rabinovitz realized she had no place to go. A widow, she had lost both her daughters to cancer, after living with one and then the other, nursing them until their deaths.

BRISTOL, R.I. — At age 82, Roberta Rabinovitz realized she had no place to go. A widow, she had lost both her daughters to cancer, after living with one and then the other, nursing them until their deaths.

At 82, Roberta Rabinovitz had no place to go. A widow, she had lost both her daughters to cancer. She’d lived with one and then the other, nursing them until their deaths. Then she moved in with her brother in Florida and helped care for him, until he also died. “My doctor said, ‘Roberta, you […]

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