Within a week after Carlos Hernandez’s mother died unexpectedly, more unexpected news came.
LOVELAND, Colo. — Carlos Hernandez remembers the day in October that his mom, Leticia Farrer, got the keys to her unit at Avenida at Centerra, a 55-and-over community in Loveland.
“My mom has always been close to me,” Hernandez said. “She couldn’t stay away from the grandkids.”
Farrer had some health conditions, including dementia, that required a lot of appointments. But the 75-year-old grandma worried about being a burden to her family.
“She went to see it and she loved it,” Hernandez said of Avenida. “She fell in love with it. And we figured because of the activities that it would be a good place for her to be.”
Hernandez never expected that happiness would end so soon. Three months later, in January, the two talked on FaceTime as Farrer was going to bed. That was the …