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I try to make a point to talk with people using canes, wheelchairs, and walkers. Make eye contact and let them know I can identify with them and recognize taht they are a person and they count.
Do you have a local senior center or community center where you and your husband could go for an hour or so to socialize and meet others? Perhaps you can go alone at first and scope it out. I started going to our local center for mom (90) and found that I could make friends there as well. We all (mom and I - as well as my husband) go to functions together or separately. We have a new group of friends. Also I teach art classes several times a month and just love it.
I remember one of my first adult patients as a rehab doc - they did great, were independent and mobile again - but simply because of having had a stroke, they ASSUMED there would be no going back out in public and rejoining their old activities that they were perfectly capable of. I was so sad and felt so defeated, but that was a more common attitude than I realized. I had a relative who came out to all the gatherings despite a pretty bad residual hemiplegia in contrast, and that cheered me up a bit though!