At twenty years old, Mandy, a former National Guardsman, was involved in a car accident that caused traumatic brain injury and significantly impacted her mobility and speech. Moving from her parents’ home to her own apartment in a building managed by Over the Rainbow...

During the bitter cold of January 1979, three friends began operating a women’s drop-in center out of a second-floor apartment in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Staffed exclusively by volunteers, it served fewer than ten women per day. The center became known as...

Independence in old age is a goal for many, but when older adults lack the material resources, physical capabilities, and support system to fulfill their most basic needs, the barriers to independence are sometimes greater than any single individual can bear. Housing...