By LORI PHELAN, Staff Writer
By LORI PHELAN, Staff Writer
Capital Gazette Communications
Published
08/08/05
The increase of aging baby boomers in the country has fostered a whole new market of products designed to keep seniors safer at home. The only problem is getting the word out that all this new safety equipment doesn't have to be expensive and that there are able-bodied volunteers willing to install it, for free.
Aiding county seniors in their quest to remain independent in their own homes is retired Army Col. Jim McFarland, a member of the Kiwanis Club of Annapolis and participant in the nonprofit group, Friends of Arundel Seniors.
A Texas native who now lives in Annapolis, Col. McFarland left the Army in 1988 after 31 years...
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