Smiling in their lounge chairs, the elderly residents of Stirling Lodge light up when they see Marie-Claire Hand, 61, from Nahoon on her daily visit to the assisted living facility. In the past, one resident in particular, Maureen Hackman, would have sat in her wheelchair doubled over a pair of knitting needles, struggling to cast her yarn after a stroke in her early forties left her without the use of her right arm.