At her small, subsidized apartment west of downtown Atlanta, Valarie White rests on the couch. Her arthritis makes it difficult for her to do the things she used to do for herself. The 60-year old says she’d be lost without her sister’s help at home.
“Because now, with this arthritis, it’s hard to open up my medicine bottles. She fixes my medicines up for me because my hand is not working right right now,” White says. “This arthritis is killing me so bad.”
White also has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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