"My mother at 88 lives in an assisted living facility with personal companions 16 hours a day because she is unable to do anything except feed herself due to a massive stroke in June, 2001; my aunt at the age of 84 lives in a board and care in California and has significant dimensia from a stroke that hit her the month before her sister's in May, 2001; and, my father who lived with my mother in an" . . . .