old folks home

“I live my life like I’m writing a book, because at the end of the day, when I’m in some old folks home and nobody feels like visiting me, I’m going to have the stories of my life to entertain me,” she said.

“The Queen was due to visit a small town in Cumbria. My grandmother was a resident in a nearby old folks’ home.

Among them is Lehane’s protagonist, Mary Pat Fennessy, widowed by her first husband, divorced by her second and working as a hospital aide in what used to be called an “old folks’ home.”

“Katie asked me what I’d do if we lost, and I said I’d send my mom off to the old folks’ home,” Susan said, laughing.

When she's a janitor at the old folks home, we made her look as interesting as possible.