Dennis Senior Center eyes potential summer reopening, new name
Patrick Flanary
“It is hard to know who’s going hungry, because they do not like to ask for help,” says Marie Jainchill, executive director of the Friends of Dennis Senior Citizens.
Juliet Pratt’s mother is 89, has arthritis and a bad back, and lives alone.
In the seven years since her husband died, she rarely gets out of the house. But she allows only her three children to visit.
“She refuses to have any help come in, so it’s up to us,” Pratt said from Connecticut, after her mother’s first COVID-19 vaccine shot in Hyannis. “We just try to get her through the very next week. It’s gotten increasingly harder for her to manage. There’s a lot of confusion and a lot of loneliness.”