So she rarely ventures out anymore, save for imperative errands to buy food for her two cats, visit the doctor or, on Christmas Eve, pick up a mince pie.
The collapsing economy provided a new imperative: saving money.
That has made the need to save seem much less urgent, even as growing lifespans make saving ever more imperative.
On March 29, the department's chief medical officer, Dr. Alexander Garza, told a House subcommittee that deploying Generation 3 would be "imperative to saving lives".
Saving these ecosystems is imperative on a range of levels, says Caroline Rogers, a marine ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Hague, Netherlands, 12 May 1999 Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen: Your presence here is a testament to the imperative of saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war - and to the indispensable role of civil society in making that dream a reality.
More than ever, the maternal health field must stand together, knowing that saving mothers' lives is an achievable imperative.
There are two imperatives in mine action work: the humanitarian imperative to save people from death and injury, and the developmental imperative to restore normal life, security, peace and prosperity.
Spending more and saving less is not the worst macroeconomic imperative a country might face.
So new methods for saving, transmission and sharing of bandwidth are imperative.
Saving mothers' lives is widely recognized as an imperative for social and economic development, as well as a human rights imperative, although until recently there has been limited evidence mapping such links[ 3].
