In 1964, as a new bride of an Air Force lieutenant, I arrived in San Antonio for the first of three assignments here. After two years, we began a series of assignments on three different continents before returning to San Antonio in 1981 and retiring in 1983.

In 1981, with children in junior high and high school, our priority was to live within walking distance of good schools. Twenty years later, our lifestyle had changed dramatically. The children were grown, married and living their own lives. For the past decade, we had cared for healthy but elderly parents, and in the process we had researched most of the independent senior communities in the area.

From that experience, we knew two things: we did not want to move twice — which would happen if we chose a facility without continuing c

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