Hilda and Henry Sunderman had always loved the seven-room house in Fox Chapel where they had lived for 36 years.
So the decision last year to downsize to a two-bedroom apartment at a retirement community in Butler County was a very difficult one.
"That was home," says Mr. Sunderman, a retired business manager. "It was the longest we lived in any one place in 54 years of marriage."
Now in their late 70s, the couple had reached the point where mowing the lawn and washing the house's 29 windows was just too big a chore. Adding to their stress level was a health scare in 2004 that started them thinking about what might happen if one of them got sick.
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