By Vincent Tilford

Guest Opinion

As CEO of the Hannan Center, my daily question is simple but urgent: How do we ensure that metro Detroit’s older adults retain both their resources and their dignity? For the past 100 years, we’ve supported seniors in Oakland, Macomb and Wayne counties through good times and bad. But today, Federal cuts will roll back decades of progress and risk a return to a past none of us want to relive.

Our founder, Luella Hannan, launched this organization in 1925 well before Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid existed. Older adults often slipped through the cracks, especially during the Great Depression. Just as seniors in Detroit faced abandonment during those years, similar hardships rippled across communities from Pontiac to Mount Clemens. When demand surged

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