For longtime Ellenville resident, Carol Lounsbery, the equation is simple: no stairs, plus no yard, equals a move to the newly completed and opened the Ellenville Senior Apartments on the Ellenville Regional Hospital's campus.

"I've rented the same house for 20 years, and before that, the house next door for another 10," says Lounsbery. She says that, now that she's getting older, dealing with the responsibilities of having to take care of the yard at her split-level house — and then having to negotiate the stairs when she wants to get anywhere inside the house — staying at her current home, despite her long residency there, is "just too much anymore.   >  MORE...

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