What teamwork!

The Cape Cod Times has a heartwarming story about amazing cross-organization teamwork that kept an elderly woman in her house. After 82-year-old Suzanne McKeown fell at home and broke her neck, she went into a nursing home and the six month stay ran through all her savings. She almost lost her house and turned to the Cape Organization for the Rights of the Disabled. One of their independent-living advocates is Kristin Jung:

"Jung, whose job is to help people in institutions regain their independence, set about advising the McKeowns of their legal rights. She helped them get an equity loan to pay the nursing facility. She began seeking grant money to make the McKeown home handicapped accessible. She negotiated with the Bourne Manor lawyers. She called state legislators to ask advice on how to stall a sheriff's auction until the McKeowns equity loan came in....Before the end of 2009, the home had been renovated and financing was in place. The final Christmas present came in mid-December, when the Barnstable County Sheriff's Community Service Crew — the inmate work crew — constructed a wheelchair ramp outside the home."