“I was not doing well emotionally,” she recalled. “Physically, I didn’t have any stamina. I was sleeping a lot. I wasn’t getting to work.”
A therapist in Hackensack, New Jersey, Poskanzer was severely overweight and grew short of breath after walking even short distances. Her house had become disorganized, buried in unsorted paperwork. The antidepressant she was taking didn’t seem to help.
Her son, visiting from Florida, called his sisters and said, “Mommy needs an intervention.”
One of her daughters made an appointment with a geriatrician — a physician who specializes in the care of older adults.