2 Nursing Facilities Planned in County
By REBECCA MADDEN
TIMES STAFF WRITER
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 2010
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After months of secret meetings and feeding misinformation to the media, Community Assisted Living Corp. on Friday finally unveiled its plan to build facilities in Watertown and Carthage that will "address the long-term care and assisted living needs in Jefferson County."
Jefferson County Legislator James A. Nabywaniec, R-Calcium, who is also president of the corporation's board, said 168 nursing home beds and 180 assisted-living beds will be made available through the new facilities.
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Aging Boomers will Strain Families, State
By WARREN WOLFE, Star Tribune
Last update: August 21, 2010 - 11:08 PM
Lynn and Steve Halverson saved taxpayers about $175 yesterday -- the cost of a nursing home room -- and they'll do it again today as they start their third year of caring for Lynn's 80-year-old mother in their Apple Valley home.
"It's what you do -- you take care of family," said Steve Halverson, who was laid off as a Schwan's manager the same month that an increasingly frail Joan Anderson moved to their house from Eau Claire, Wis.
"We get by, but some days it's not easy," he said. "It's about caring -- loving, I guess you'd say.''
Across Minnesota about 650,000 caregivers -- one in five adults -- are deeply involved with the joys and frustrations of helping aging relatives.
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Aging Well: Workshop, Resources Help Ease Caregiving
By Tamera Manzanares Monday, August 23, 2010
There is no way to fully prepare for the challenge of caring for a person with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
Most jobs come with training, but caregiving — and the many roles and responsibilities that come with it — often is unexpected and overwhelming.
It can be helpful knowing that many others are in the same situation, and there are resources to help.
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As Retirement Age changes
As Retirement Age changes in other parts of the world, will the US follow...
Feb 21, 2010 02:43 pm | Senior Housing News
Fashion trends historically start in Europe and make their way to the US…are retirement trends the next trend to jump across the pond? The list of countries that are examining raising the retirement age or ones that have already raised continues to grow. Spain recently announced that it has approved a plan to raise the ...
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Assisted Living Communities Quickly Growing In Popularity With Seniors
August 01, 2010 @ 12:00 AM
The Herald-Dispatch
Have you noticed how assisted living communities are springing up faster than neighborhood drug stores? Kind of makes you wonder what these communities have to offer that has the senior generation waiting in line to move in.
Here's what a recent survey revealed when several thousand seniors in the U.S. and Canada were asked what they thought of their residency in assisted living facilities. A resounding majority believed they are now better off.
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Charlotte, N.C.-based Senior Living Communities Recognizes Employees for Superior Service
PRLog (Press Release) – Aug 04, 2010 – CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Senior Living Communities, a Charlotte, N.C.-based owner and operator of luxury retirement communities recently recognized employees Kelly Stranburg, Tonya Ray and Katie Huffstetler for making an outstanding contribution to the senior living industry.
The women received a Supernova award for their participation in implementing and promoting the company’s WAVES program, which is an aquatic therapy class designed to reduce symptoms associated with dementia.
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Communicate Your Way
The telephone may be an accepted part of life in the 21st century, but not for an estimated three million Californians. Most of us take using the telephone for granted. But if you have difficulty seeing, hearing, speaking, remembering, or moving, what seems to be a simple telephone call can be challenging—preventing communication with family, friends, and others.
The same telecommunications technology that fuels never-ending innovation has produced a wealth of specialized phones and devices so people with disabilities can communicate with family and friends. These phones are provided by the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program (DDTP) at no charge to eligible Californians.
DDTP distributes telecommunications equipment and services that improve communication for all Californians. A program of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), the DDTP provides Californians with specialized telephone equipment and relay services through the California Telephone Access Program (CTAP) and California Relay Service (CRS), respectively. CTAP provides specialized phones that amplify sound, adjust tone, light up for incoming calls, display phone conversation as text, have large buttons with raised numbers, are portable, or have speed dial phone buttons incorporating photographs. CTAP offers approximately 60 types of specialized phones and devices, so that all Californians can communicate their own way.
CRS provides specially-trained Relay Operators and Communication Assistants to relay telephone conversations between people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or are speech-disabled with those they wish to communicate with by telephone. CRS, captioned telephone, and Speech-to-Speech relay services are all offered in English and Spanish.
California residents are eligible for CTAP specialized equipment if they have phone service and are certified by a licensed physician, medical doctor, or audiologist as having difficulty using a standard telephone because of diff
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Data Shows Senior Housing Occupancy Stabilizes
While Rent Growth Slows...
February 22, 2010 Senior Housing News
The National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry (NIC) data for the third quarter of 2009 showed that occupancy rates in independent living and assisted living remained relatively flat and that rent growth and construction starts slowed, suggesting that seniors housing occupancy may be reaching bottom. Read more..
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Does Staying Healthy reduce your Lifetime Health Costs for Seniors?
May 17, 2010 - Senior Housing News
Does keeping healthy really reduce the costs of living in retirement or does it actually increase those costs because improved health leads to longer life? A recent brief from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College reported new findings on average lifetime health care costs at selected ages and on the distribution of ...read more
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Early Stage Alzheimer's Support Group Does Wonders for Caregivers, Patients
By Hillary Copsey
TCPalm
Posted August 19, 2010 at 6:17 p.m.
PORT ST. LUCIE — A doctor says, “Alzheimer’s disease,” and your life changes. As the disease progresses, the household division of labor shifts. Say, “I already told you,” one time too many, and relationships grow strained.
And often, you’re alone. Just you, the patient, and you, the caregiver. Friends have drifted away. Family can help only so much. Other people, outsiders, might not even notice a problem.
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Elkutna Estates Eases Senior Housing Problem
Ted Land
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska's growing population of low-income senior citizens needs a place to live, and some relief came Tuesday with the opening of a new home in a quiet corner of Muldoon.
Everything in the Eklutna Estates apartments is lower: from the peephole on the front door, to the thermostat, to the kitchen counters. Developers are clearly targeting a specific group of renters, because touches like these are very much in demand.
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ESAAL Applauds New Law to Expand Seniors' Access to an Enhanced Assisted Living Residence
CLIFTON PARK, NY (08/16/2010)(readMedia)-- The Empire State Association of Assisted Living applauded Governor Paterson today for signing into law a measure that will allow seniors to be directly admitted into a certified Enhanced Assisted Living Residence (EALR) from outside the assisted living environment. Both Houses of the New York State Legislature passed the measure in June.
Currently many assisted living residences can accommodate seniors even though their needs surpass the traditional admission/retention criteria for the adult home/enriched housing program/assisted living residence. Through a certification known as the Enhanced Assisted Living Residence (EALR), individuals can reside in an assisted living residence even if they need assistance with walking, transferring, descending stairs, or operating medical equipment.
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Finding the Right Home - and Contentment, Too
August 6, 2010, 9:00 am By PAULA SPAN
When your elderly relative needs to enter some sort of long-term care facility — a moment few parents or children approach without dread — what you’d like to have is clarity.
Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home, or has the industry simply hired better interior designers? Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is that an outmoded stereotype? Can doing one’s homework really steer families to the best places? It’s genuinely hard to know.
I’m about to muddy the waters further by suggesting that what variety of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we’ve assumed. And that the characteristics adult children look for when they begin the search aren’t necessarily what makes a difference to the people who move in.
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Florida Dept. of Elder Affairs receives $2.9 million grant to help Seniors find jobs
Governor Charlie Crist recently announced that Florida received a federal grant of more than $2.9 million to assist Florida elders looking to re-enter the workforce. Awarded to the Florida Department of Elder Affairs, the additional grant funds will immediately address unmet needs for employment and job training among Florida’s low-income older workers age 55 and ... published on Senior Housing News on February 15, 2010. Visit seniorhousing.news.com
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Gardens at Sunnyside Retirement Center in Glenwood Springs Keep Residents Busy, Happy
Anna Gauldin
Post Independent Intern
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — Between digging, weeding, planting and pruning, the residents of Sunnyside Retirement Center are keeping busy this summer. Gardens are scattered throughout the Sunnyside property, lining sidewalks and filling corners with colorful blooms. “We have gardens all the way around the building,” said Grace Schick, a Sunnyside resident for the past six years.
Sunnyside is an independent living center in downtown Glenwood Springs, currently housing 56 residents. Many of the residents had gardens at their previous homes and have transferred their flair for flowers to Sunnyside's lawns. “It's a win-win situation,” said Schick. “I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I didn't have a place to dig in the dirt. I've been working in the garden ever since I moved in.”
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Golden Retrievers Invade Pinellas County Assisted Living Facility
(via COMTEX News Network)--
They arrived at the Pinellas County assisted living facility in a flurry of fur and a parade of paws. Nearly 15 golden retrievers descend upon the residents of the Regal Palms assisted living facility in Largo every couple of months, the most recent visit coming on the fourth of July holiday weekend. That the dogs had small American flags celebrating Independence Day in their mouths was just a bonus. The real treat for the senior citizens who are dealing with the early stages of Alzheimer's or other memory impairments is the excitement of interacting with such loving, sociable pets.
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Ground Broken on Senior Housing: New Neighborhood will Consist of 36 One-bedroom Apartmetns for Adults age 62 and Older
(Source: The Daily News)By Justin Story, Daily News, Bowling Green, Ky
Aug. 21--Ground was broken Friday on the first Housing Authority of Bowling Green development to cater exclusively to the elderly.
Currently under development on four acres of a 51-acre tract of land purchased 10 years ago, Fort Webb Manor is the realization of what officials involved in the project's planning described as years of work.
Scheduled to be completed in August 2011, Fort Webb arrives at a time when demand for public housing is on the increase, according to housing authority Executive Director Abraham Williams.
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Groundbreaking Celebrates New Senior Apartmetns
The Journal-News, Hillsboro, IL.
Two 50-year old housing developments for senior citizens will be knocked down in favor of new, single level units after a ground-breaking Thursday afternoon.
Hull Homes in Hillsboro and Ash-Arnette Elderly Housing Apartments in Litchfield, two identical two-story Montgomery County Housing Authority (MCHA) developments built in the early 1960s, will be razed in favor of Golden Oaks Senior Apartments.
"These were two-level apartments," MCHA board chairman Ken Durbin said. "For senior citizens to get into the second story was a problem. The new ones will be one floor."
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Hospice and Palliative Care
Hospice and Palliative Care: Patient Wishes and Options for Care
Being able to die at home in a dignified way is something that most people would hope for, even though they might not necessarily talk about it. In fact, surveys consistently show that most people would prefer to die in their homes, yet more than 60% of all deaths occur in hospitals. While statistics show that an increasing number of patients are using hospice care, the length of stay or the amount of time spent under hospice care, is inadequate. Longer periods of hospice care, provide hospice professionals with the opportunity to give terminally ill patients the specialized care they deserve.
Admission to hospice care requires a physician’s order and is available to patients with any type of life-limiting illness or injury. Physicians are highly influential in shaping how families understand a terminal prognosis and can assist families with the decision to transition to hospice care. It is important that honesty and integrity be given to the family and the patient in order for them to make the most informed decision about their care, especially at the end of life. Hospice professionals can help people document their wishes for-end-of life care and offer assistance with important documents such as advanced medical directives. Hospice and palliative care services, including medications and medical equipment, are covered benefits under Medicare, Medi-Cal and most commercial insurance plans.
Hospice care combines the highest level of quality medical care with the emotional and spiritual support that patients and their families need most and is provided wherever someone calls “home”. Not-for-profit hospice organizations are able to allocate more resources to direct patient care because they are dedicated to serving the needs of our community, not investors.
For a mutual understanding of patient wishes and options for care, contact Hospice of the North Coast, a nonprofit organization
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HUD Awards Energy Efficiency Grants to Retrofit Senior Housing Projects
The U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD)recently announced that 100 affordable housing developments, including 8,112 homes, around the country have been awarded more than $100 million to complete energy efficient renovations with Recovery Act funds. Some of the grants went to retrofit senior housing projects in Chicago, Illinois, Burlington, Vermont and Revere, Massachusetts.
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Hunt Developers Plan 'Country Club' Senior Living
By Ethan Forman
Staff writer
DANVERS — The owners of the old Hunt Hospital plan to build upscale senior housing on the property, a marked change from their original intentions of building a "state-of-the-art" health care center.
Developers envision a "country club" setting rather than an institutional one on the 16.5-acre property. They plan to do away with the tired, 1950s former Hunt Hospital and its hodgepodge of buildings.
"There will not be anything we will retain of the existing buildings," said Chairman and CEO Joseph Traina, head of the New York-based Traina Companies.
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Illinois HFS Announces 18 New Supportive Living Facilities
February 23, 2010 Senior Housing News
The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) recently announced the approval of 18 new Supportive Living Facilities (SLFs) in Illinois. The state’s Supportive Living Program offers an alternative to nursing home care for low income seniors, and people with physical disabilities and the state’s Medicaid program pays for a portion or all of the medical care for eligible residents. Residents are responsible for paying for their housing with Social Security or other personal funds. Read more..
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Illinois Releases Nursing Home Task...
Illinois Releases Nursing Home Task Force Final Report
March 1, 2010 Senior Housing News
Our friends at the Illinois Governor’s (the current governor, not Apprentice Blagojevich) office sent over the the final report of the Nursing Home Safety Task Force was presented to Governor Pat Quinn last week. It details recommendations to ensure the safety of nursing home residents and build a better system of treatment for people in need of care for physical or mental illnesses, disorders or disabilities in Illinois. One of the topics that Senior Housing News strives to avoid covering/highlighting are the frequent discussions and articles on nursing home safety and abuse that are alarming and sensationalist. However, we felt that the report was more constructive than caustic and alarmist and worth sharing.
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Kivel Gets $3.9 Million to Start Memory Care Unit
SALVATORE CAPUTO
Senior Staff Writer
Kivel Campus of Care will add a memory-care unit to its assisted-living facility thanks to a $3.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
"This is a really exciting grant for us and the community because it fills a need that doesn't get filled any other way," said Ira Shulman, Kivel's president and CEO. "Without this grant, the memory-care unit doesn't happen."
He added that Kivel has received many requests from the community for memory care, and will now have the opportunity to fulfill those requests.
The funding, announced July 27, was one of only five competitive grants awarded nationwide in the Assisted Living Conversion Program (ALCP), according to a HUD press release.
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Lake Elmo Farm School and Senior Living
Lake Elmo Farm School & Senior Living
Last update: August 8, 2010 - 10:13 AM
After guiding it through a lengthy approval process, preschool owner Tammy Malmquist has gained the city permits necessary to launch a unique project that would combine a preschool, a senior housing campus and a working farm on a rural setting in Lake Elmo.
Under her plans, Malmquist is seeking to construct 40-unit senior condominium building, some townhouse units and a new preschool/community center built to resemble a historic schoolhouse, all situated on a working hobby farm that would be used to impart a "farm school" experience and promote "intergenerational learning" via interaction between the senior citizen residents and the young students.
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Learning to Be Good Enough
By JANE GROSS
Not long ago, following a reader’s suggestion, I found the Web site SilverPlanet, one of a growing number of online destinations for leading-edge Baby Boomers that offers information, blogs and resources on subjects such as health, finances and entertainment.
The site is a bit busy for my taste, trying to be all things to all people, but I was immediately drawn to the title of one blog: “A Good Enough Daughter” by Sara Myers, who has 30 years of professional experience in the fi
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Licking County has its own Senior Crooner
83-year-old Newark man brings sounds of '30s, '40s and '50s to area senior facilities
BY ANNA SUDAR • Advocate Reporter • August 4, 2010
NEWARK -- When Richard Price was 12, he saved his money and bought a guitar so he could sing "You Are My Sunshine."Seventy-one years later, the Newark man still is singing and performing.
A resident of Arlington Care Center in Newark, Price, 83, travels to nursing homes and assisted-living facilities around Licking County, giving free concerts for the residents there.
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Lions Club Donates to Help With Senior Van, New Pavilion
By Julie Balise/Daily News staff
Milford Daily News
Posted Aug 06, 2010 @ 01:12 AM
MENDON — The Senior Center van serves an array of purposes - whether it's bringing senior citizens to doctor's appointments or the hairdresser or helping the disabled get around.
Though the van is aging, help is on the way from the Lions Club, which has given the Senior Center a $1,000 donation to help with repairs. The Lions have also given $1,000 to help the Boy Scouts build a pavilion at Memorial Field.
The 14-year-old van is due for some updates.
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Look for Assisted Living that is Comfortable, Experts Say
Kathleen Norton • For the Poughkeepsie Journal • August 15, 2010
The number of Americans over 65 is expected to double in the next 20 years, which means millions of families will be searching for ways to care for aging relatives and friends.
If residential care is an affordable option, experts say there is one question families can begin with as they take on the often difficult and emotional search for a facility: Does the place feel comfortable?
"It should feel like it's a home,'' said Jodi Gittelman, executive director at the Promenade at Tuxedo Place, Tuxedo,Orange County, one of three senior residential sites in the region owned by Promenade Senior Living LLC.
Visitors should be welcomed by the staff, and families should be encouraged to speak to other residents to ask what it's like living there.
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Maybe Grief Isn’t So Bad After All
By PAULA SPAN
What do we know, or think we know, about the way we respond when a loved one dies?
We pass with the dying through the Kübler-Ross stages — denial, anger and so forth. We realize that people who seem happy or even crack jokes after a terrible loss are faking it and that we will pay a psychological price for not dutifully attending to our own “grief work.” We seek therapy or grief counseling, and if we would rather not, we berate ourselves for living in a harmful state of denial. Provided by the newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com
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Melbourne Tides Hotel New Home for Seniors
Landmark Melbourne property to convert to assisted living facility
BY WAYNE T. PRICE • FLORIDA TODAY • August 3, 2010
The Tides Hotel Waterfront in Melbourne once billed itself as offering a unique boutique lodging experience ideal for business clients working with nearby companies like Northrop Grumman and Harris Corp.
Its rooms featured flat-screen TVs and modern décor in a convenient location at U.S.1 and NASA Boulevard.
The property will offer a decidedly different experience starting this winter.
A Clearwater-based management group plans to convert the former hotel, with its blue-and-white motif, into an assisted living facility for seniors. It's one of three such facilities being proposed for Melbourne.
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New Senior Housing May Come to Maple Lane
By LANA MINI
The Sterling Heights City Council took the initial steps to pave the way for a new, 192-unit senior citizen housing development on Maple Lane north of 14 Mile Road.
Council unanimously approved at its last meeting a tax exemption for developer Excel Sterling, which is proposing to build Sterling Senior Residence, a project that would offer low- to moderate-income housing for seniors whose two-person income is $33,000 a year or less.
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Palo Alto Affordable Housing Development for Low-income Seniors Hosts Grand Opening
From staff and wire reports.
Posted: 08/09/2010 07:05:38 PM PDT
A new apartment complex for low-income seniors has opened in South Palo Alto and will be feted Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The 56-unit Alta Torre apartments were built for $22.9 million by BRIDGE Housing Corp., a nonprofit developer of affordable housing for working families and seniors. Twenty of the units will be dedicated to seniors who have special needs.
The apartments will serve seniors with annual incomes of $10,632 to $37,280. Rents range from $443 to $742 per month, depending on income and household size, BRIDGE spokeswoman Lyn Hikida said. The apartments accommodate households of up to three people.
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Pennsylvania Getting up to Speed on Assisted Living Care
Sunday, July 25, 2010
By Gary Rotstein, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Timothy W. Coughlin is amused that Pennsylvania is recognizing "assisted living" as a new category of long-term care, considering his company and others believe they've been offering it since late last century.
On the other hand, he welcomes new state regulations and a plan for government funding that officially place assisted living as a new category between the long-established personal care home and nursing home industries, starting in 2011. Read more....
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Plans for a new Nursing Home in Midway Advance
By Greg Kocher
MIDWAY — Plans for a new nursing home and retirement community took another step forward recently when a site was purchased just outside the limits of this northern Woodford County city.
Christian Care Communities, Kentucky's largest faith-based provider of senior housing and long-term care services, has acquired 31 acres on East Stephens Street across from Midway College. The property is known as Galtee Farm.
The land was purchased from the estate of Liam Gallagher for $591,000, according to a deed filed in July in the Woodford County clerk's office. Gallagher, a Lexington resident, died in October.
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Project Combines Craft with Caring, Outreach
Chicago Tribune
You would think residents of area retirement and assisted living communities wouldn't appreciate hearing the term "old bags" but many of them are participating in a project that gives a very positive meaning to the term.
New Life for Old Bags is a program where volunteers turn plastic grocery bags into plastic yarn -- or "plarn." It is then crocheted into sleeping mats for the homeless.
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Senior Complex Filling Up; Nearly 400 are on Waiting List
Liset Marquez, Staff Writer
Posted: 08/08/2010 09:42:39 PM PDT
ONTARIO - Marie Gloria Huerta knows her chances are low, but she is holding out hope she can live in City Center Senior Apartments when they open in October.
But Huerta's number - on a waiting list that only has 75 openings - is 118. The complex has 361 people on its waiting list.
"I got my application on the first day, and I thought I'd get (an apartment)," said Huerta, 73. "Instead they got me on a waiting list."
The apartments are in the 200 block of North Lemon Avenue, between B and C streets and next to the Senior Center and City Hall.
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Senior Housing News Review of CNBC's
Senior Housing News Rview of CNBC's “Boomer$!” hosted by Tom Brokaw.... March 17, 2010
As a regular watcher of CNBC, I have been looking forward to watching “Boomer$!” and have seen some of CNBC’s other documentaries and thought some of them did a very good job at outlining the topics that they were covering. I felt the best was David Faber’s “House of Cards” which did a great job ... read more
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Senior Housing set to Surge in County
By Cami Joner
Columbian Staff Reporter
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Clark County’s older set — baby boomers and their parents — are the targeted market for a slate of new senior communities proposed from east Vancouver northward to the Salmon Creek area.
More than $30 million worth of construction will add 172 senior living units and a 20-bed hospice center to four separate communities that are being developed by public and private entities.
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Senior Signals: Adult Day Care the Answer to Caregiver Burnout
Sunday, August 22, 2010 10:56 PM EDT
Daniel O. Tully
If you are a primary caregiver for a loved one, you are well aware of the daily stress and emotional and physical impact it can have on your health.
Susan learned this first hand when she and her husband, Tom, brought his mother home to live with them. Tom’s mother suffered from dementia and had to be watched constantly. Susan found that when you become a caregiver, you start by giving up a few things you usually do for yourself in order to make up for the time needed for care giving. Even though your service is one of love and you are willing to do the sacrifice on behalf of your loved one, you find yourself giving up more and more as time goes on.
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Senior Swimmer Certified as Lifeguard at age 82
By Yesenia Robles
The Denver Post
Few people have the might — or the will — to swim 500 yards, demonstrate lifesaving techniques, retrieve a 10-pound block from the deep end of the pool and swim to the edge with it balanced on their chest to pass a lifeguard-certification test.
Even fewer could do it on the first try, as Kathleen Friend did last year, when she was 82 years old.
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Seniors Enjoying Wii Bowling Leagues and Tournament
Written on August 16, 2010 at 1:45 pm by Ellen
The popularity of the Nintendo Wii has been increasing this year among seniors, as they look for new, low impact, ways that they can get exercise while living at a nursing home or assisted living facility. One game in particular is a hit with seniors, and surprisingly it is the free Wii Sports game that comes with the system. Specifically seniors are very into playing Wii bowling, as it was a common activity which many would participate in earlier in their life.
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St. Peter's Site Begins Transformation from House of Worship to Senior Housing in Pleasantville
By CHRISTOPHER RAMIREZ Staff Writer | Posted: Thursday, August 12, 2010
PLEASANTVILLE — The life of Anna Tosti is deeply intertwined with St. Peter Catholic Church.
It’s where her parents married and where she was baptized, it and stands across from her childhood home along the Black Horse Pike near Main Street.
Tosti is now watching a rebirth of the land where a church parish was active for more a century until an official merger was completed in May with nearby St. Bernadette’s in Northfield.
Construction is already a few weeks under way in the massive makeover to the property that will result in the Village at St. Peter’s, a senior housing complex spearheaded by the Diocese of Camden for those ages 62 and older.
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Study Confirms Working Family Caregivers Share Growing Need for Senior-Care Support
Nearly three-fourths (74 percent) of family caregivers have been employed while they were assisting another person, according to a 2009 report from the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP. Most (68 percent) have had to make a workplace accommodation due to caregiving. The most common workplace accommodations are going in late, leaving early or taking time off during the day. The Home Instead Senior Care® network is well aware of the needs described in the study and recognizes employed family caregivers as one dominant segment driving growth in the senior care industry.
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Support Group Provided for Alzheimer's Caregivers in Johnson City
By Josh Gissel
August 19, 2010
They are the silent angels in the world, the people who devote themselves to the unpaid care of chronically ill or disabled family members. They are also the people more prone to burnout. The demands of being a caregiver can often be tremendous, especially when that individual is an Alzheimer’s caregiver.
Alzheimer’s caregivers often have a hard time, especially since the Alzheimer’s patient in their care cannot be left alone. Providing care for such a family member in need is a centuries-old act of kindness, love, and devotion. And as life expectancies increase, and medical treatments advance, more individuals are finding themselves involved in the care giving process for even longer periods of time.
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The Power of Words
Suzanne Mintz, President/CEO
National Family Caregivers Association
Perhaps in Shakespeare’s time, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”, but that’s not necessarily so in the twenty-first century. Today we know that words can inspire us to achieve goals we never thought possible, but they can also fuel ethnic, racial, or religious prejudice. Given the speed of communications in the current age, what was politically correct twenty years ago is politically incorrect today. The meanings of words change in our ever-changing world. Case in point — there are any number of terms used to describe those of us who care for loved ones because of our feelings for them and our sense of family responsibility. Academicians and policy makers refer to us as “informal caregivers”, a term I personally detest. I know why the term exists. It is meant to distinguish us from those for whom giving care is a job or a profession. And indeed it is important to distinguish us from them.
The academicians and policy makers refer to paid or professional caregivers as “formal caregivers” to distinguish them from us but to also somehow show that we are linked together by the fact that we all give some sort of care.
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Tips for Helping with Long Distance Caregiving
By Helen Dennis
Posted: 08/11/2010 05:23:05 PM PDT
The challenge that you face has been given a name - long-distance caregiving.
Here is a little background information:
The National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP report there are 5 to 7 million long-distance caregivers in the U.S. who are caring for an older relative - a number that is expected to double over the next 15 years. They live, on average, 480 miles from the people for whom they care and spend an average of four hours in travel time per visit.
Employers are affected. According to the Alzheimer's Association's Long Distance Caregiver Project, employers collectively lose 15 million hours a year of work time due to long-distance caregiving.
Given the responsibility and commitment, where does one begin? The following tips may be helpful:
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What is the difference between low income and affordable senior housing?
June 23, 2010 Senior Housing News
Affordable – “that can be afforded; believed to be within one’s financial means”. The concept of affordable housing is gaining more attention across the country as a slow economic recovery sets in not only for seniors but for all demographics in the United States. While affordability is typically defined on a local and regional level, many seniors are having to look outside their immediate communities for low cost alternatives to maximize their fixed incomes by looking at different states and even different parts of the world in some cases.
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What Makes Us Happy
Whether you’re young or old, good health, stalwart friends and financial security are the best predictors of happiness, according to a new survey on aging by the Pew Research Center. The new survey shows that levels of happiness are roughly constant across age groups, despite platitudes about the bliss of youth. Among older adults, happiness tended to vary little with gender or race, the survey also found. Still, key factors separate the happy from the unhappy.
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What makes us happy
By Sarah Arnquist
Whether you’re young or old, good health, stalwart friends and financial security are the best predictors of happiness, according to a new survey on aging by the Pew Research Center.
The new survey shows that levels of happiness are roughly constant across age groups, despite platitudes about the bliss of youth. Among older adults, happiness tended to vary little with gender or race, the survey also found.
Still, key factors separate the happy from the unhappy. Provided by the
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Words for Seniors Facing Loss
By PAULA SPAN
My father is a relentlessly upbeat guy. “Up and around!” he reports when I call. “Keeping busy!” He tells me about his volunteer work, his card game winnings, the (seated) yoga class he enrolled in at the library. His favorite refrain is, “I can’t complain.” (And yes, yes, yes, my sister and I do know how lucky we are.)
He does tell me about the funerals, though. At 87, watching his peers struggle with the physical and psychological trials of old age, he goes to a lot of them. He
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