LOS ANGELES — Paul Hult's problems began about a year and a half ago, when he tripped and fell in the little Hollywood bungalow he has lived in since the 1950s.
"I got bruised," said the 102-year-old U.S. Army veteran, a cryptologist whose job was to crack enemy codes while stationed in Northern Africa and Europe during World War II.
Hult wore a plaid shirt and was seated in an easy chair with a walker at his feet when I visited him the other day. He insisted he wasn't badly injured when he took his fall. But he'd been living alone since his wife, Zora, died in 2005, and loved ones told him it was time for live-in health care aides.
