Mrs. A. is an elderly and low-income homeowner  in Hamden.  She lives there with her daughter who is also her caregiver.  She is unable to walk up and down her front steps and needed a ramp installed in order to get out of the house and to her doctor’s appointments, but she did not have the income or savings to pay for it.  The Agency on Aging of South Central CT’s Nursing Home Diversion program paid for part of the project, but requested our help when they ran out of funding to complete the installation.  The ramp will allow Mrs. A to stay in her home rather than move to a nursing facility.  With income below $1,200 per month, her placement in a nursing home would have necessitated the sale of her home, the only asset she has to show for a lifetime of work.  Selling the house would have also displaced her daughter.  With the simple installation of the ramp, two women are secure in long-term housing.