„ . Jewish-Sponsored Boarding Home for Aged By BEN GALL OB (Copyright UM JTA. Me-) boarding care home program in New York was started by the Jew- ish Community Services, it was the post-World War II refugee families which provided most of the host homes. Many refugee family heads, forced to accept lesser-pay- ing jobs than they had held in Europe and familiar with the European pension boarding home arrangement, accepted elderly boarders to supplement their in- stringent requirements. The home must meet city regulations. Each boarder must have his own room and adequate toilet facilities. The prospective "host" is interviewed by a JASA caseworker and, if found acceptable, is given an ex- amination by a JASA doctor. He must also attend a three-day ori- entation and training program. He is required to provide food and also care, since the boarder may sometimes have to be fed, bathed and helped to move about For these services, the host re- ceives $250 a month, paid by the boarder — usually from his so- dal security benefits, plus pay- ments from his family, and when possible, supplemented by limit- ed public assistance, if the boarder is eligible. JASA subsi- dises the difference between the funds available to the client and the $250 monthly cost. Warach said 95 per cent of the JASA clients are subsidized. If mental or physical deterioration sets in which makes it impossible for the boarder to continue re- siding in the host home, the JASA counselor meets with the host, the boarder's family and with the boarder — if he or she is com- petent- — to discuss placement in a home for the aged, or some other appropriate facility. Initially, according to Sarah Lederinan, who conducts the JASA program, hosts were recruited by publicity. However, many non-Jews read about the program and volun- teered to be hosts, explaining they were familiar with the Jewish di- etary laws and could provide a home for elderly Jews. These of- fers had to be turned down, she said, because only Jewish hosts and homes are accepted by JASA clients in the program. The agency now depends on word-of-mouth suggestions, generally from cur- rent and former hosts, to recruit new host homes. Twenty-eight elderly New York Jews currently are residents in private homes in the nation's largest Jewish-sponsored boarding home program for the aged, ac- cording to an official of the Jew- ish Association for Services (or Ilse Aged (JASA), a central or- ganization for such services of the New York Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, sponsors of the comes. There has also been a decline in project Bernard Warach. JASA execu- the number of requests for such tive director, said that while the placement, he reported. He said 23-year.old program has been a elderly persons, in their 70's, and success, it had never been as large 80's, now have "a greater degree as had been hoped for, because of self-support because of social there never has been a large security, pensions and public as- enough number of "host” homes sistance and many prefer to live available. He said the idea of plac- in their own apartments. They live ing aged persons in private homes longer and healthier lives due to as paying boarders, rather than in Medicare and Medicaid?' There is nevertheless still a -institutions, grew out of the "spec- tacular" growth of the foster home great need for the boarding house movement for children in the program, he declared. Experience has shown that it generally is not 1940's. • • He said the first boarding home until the age of 84 that an in- program for the Jewish aged in dividual needs the "protective cli- New York City was started by the mate" of a nursing home or a Jewish Community Services of home for the aged. The lack of Long Island, another Federation enough "host" homes for the JASA agency. That program reached its boarding home program is costly peak in 1958, with 80 Jewish men to the community, he said. and women placed in homes. By He compared the $250 monthly 1980, the number of such elderly fee for the private home pro- gram with the $600 monthly cost Jewish boarders had dropped to 50. Only individuals, not couples, of Jewish Institutional domicilary are placed in the program, which care and the $1,000 monthly coat was taken over by JASA when that of the infirmary care. He added agency was founded more than 18 he was not optimistic, "for the moment," at least, about the months ago. Warach told the Jewish Tele- future of the boarding care graphic Agency that the decline movement for the Jewish aged in the number of boarding in the United States. homes stemmed largely from The JASA procedure for plac- the growing affluence of that ing an elderly Jew in a private part of the American Jewish home begins with a meeting be- population who had in the past tween a JASA counselor and the provided the host homes, as well applicant, his family and doctor. as from the tight New York City A psychiatrist may be called in, housing situation. if need be, to determine the ap- - He noted that the idea of "fos- plicant's ability to get along with ter" homes for elderly Jews goes the host family. There is a many- * • • back to the medieval period in faceted study of the applicant and Europe and even earlier and that, of the type of home needed. If a Chicago Plan Keeps at one time, it was a common vacancy exists, the applicant is practice for Jewish families in this placed in a private home. If none country to take in boarders. With exists, JASA tries to place him Aged at Home the advent of the 1930s, he said, elsewhere. Once he is placed, he CHICAGO (JTA)—A plan to help that ceased to be a normal practice receives regular visits from his aged Jews remain in their neigh- in the Jewish community. JASA counselor. borhoods and whenever possible in Accordingly, when the Jewish To be a JASA "host" involves their homes as independent func- tioning individuals, has been an- by the Jewish Federation Two Former Nazis, Charged nounced of Metropolitan Chicago as the product. of two years of research With Killing Thousands, Free and planning. FRANKFURT — (JTA) — Dr. ted despite the fact that the jury The plan was developed by a Bernard Franz Lucas, one of the found he had aided in the murder Gerontological Council, created by defendants in the Auschwitz trial of several thousand Jews by se- the federation to assess existing who had been sentenced to three- lecting for death the elderly who programs, recommend improve- and-a-half-years imprisonment, had arrived at Auschwitz. ments and "develop a comprehen- his appeal upheld and was acquit. The jury based its verdict on sive and coordinated plan to meet the state prosecutor's words that the current and future needs of Cholera Over, but Israelis Lucas bad been in a difficult situ- Chicago's Jewish aged," according ation and no one could have ex- to Jerome M. Comar, federation Warned . Could Rehm pected him to endanger himself by president. JERUSALEM — (JTA) —Health saving other people. Joseph L. Gidwitz, chairman of Minister Victor Shemtov declared Informed sources here pointed the council, said that the new that the cholera outbreak is defi- out that to this day, there is no plan was designed to fit the needs nitely over but warned that it could evidence that any Nazi war crimi- of the individual, rather than to reoccur next year and .urged the nal had been punished for refusing conform to the usual concept of populace to observe the highest to take part in such actions, and trying to fit the elderly into a pat- standards of sanitation. they always had the alternative of tern of services centered around Shemtov said no new cases of volunteering for front-line service. institutions for the elderly. the disease have been diagnosed In Vienna, former SS member Under the plan, the elderly Jew since Oct. 12. Cholera has a five- Joseph Wendel was acquitted here will make use of the resources day incubation period. last Friday because "he had acted and strawlike be or she.has, aug- A health ministry source told the under orders" in participating in mented through a network of fed- Jewish Telegraphic Agency that a the murder' of 300 Jews in 1943. eration sponsored in home and total of 249 cases of cholera had Wendel, 60, was one of the drivers neighborhood services. The chair- been diagnosed since it was first of the infamous "gas cars" that man said it was hoped that the detected in the Arab sector of predated the gas chambers. Jewish aged would be offered Jerusalem last Aug. 20. help to achieve a We of Indepen- There were five deaths known dence which traditional pro- to have been caused by cholera Report Nixon Urged grams, by their nature, cannot since then and a number of other Franco to Establish provide. - deaths during the period which Through the area service center, are being investigated to deter- Ties With Israel elderly Jews will be provided with mine whether they were caused by MADRID (ZINS)—Rumors stub- cholera or some other disease. bornly persist, according to the a wide range of services, including emergency help, home-maker and The health ministry said the Spanish news agency Prensa, that disease was finally suppressed by Spain will shortly establish diplo- shopping assistance, telephone re- a far-reaching unitary campaign, matic relations with the state of assurance, transportation services, home meal services, job counseling but medical authorities have been Israel. unable to pinpoint any individual According to Prensa, President and job opportunities on the staff of source of the infection. Nixon, on his recent European the service center, health screening tour, strongly urged Franco that and in home- health services. The Consider the postage stamp: its Spain formally establish ties with council chairman said that a va- usefulness consists in the ability Israel. Several months ago Abba riety of different types of housing ig 911A419 s 14. gels Eban held some• talks- on this sub- -was being considered,-to-meet the there.—Josh BM ject with Spain's foreign minister. varied needs of aged persons, THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 54—Friday, October 23, 1970 Firms Set Lower Rate for Shipping to Israel NEW YORK (JTA)—Americans shipping personal and household effects to Israel are paying lower freight charges as the result of an agreement that went into effect this month with two steamship companies. The firms,. American Export- Isbrandsten Lines and the Zim Lines of Israel agreed to supply the so-called container rules to shipments from the U.S. to Israel. So far they have applied only to shipments to Europe. Most general cargo is now car- ried in standard 20-foot containers. Freight rates are based on cubic footage. Under container rules the freight is calculated on the internal rather than external dimensions of the caintainers, the difference amounting to as much as 250 cubic feet, representing a consider- able savings for the shipper. The companies also agreed to charge shippers of less than full container loads only for the space occupied by their goods. The Family of the Late ABE KOLE Announces the unveiling of a monument in his memory 2:30 p.m. Sun- day, Oct. 25 at Chesed abet Emes Cemetery. Rabbi Goldschlag will of- ficiat e. Relatives and friends are asked to attend. The Family of the Late HARRY CERESN I E Announces the unveiling of a monument in his memory 1 p.m: Sunday, Oct. 25 at Clover Hill Memorial Park. Rabbi Wine will officiate. Rela- tives and friends are asked to attend. The Family of the Late • MARY TUSHMAN Announces the unveiling of a monument in her memory 9:30 i.m. Sunday, Nov. 1 at Northwest Hebrew Memorial Park. Rabbi Segal will officiate. Relatives and friends are asked to attend. Mrs. Rae Kaufman and The Family of the Late ISADORE KAUFMAN Announce the unveiling of a moment in his mem- ory 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct 25 at (Used shel Emes Cemetery. Rabbi Goldschlag will officiate. Relatives and friends are asked to attend. Vinejemily of the Rut_ The Family of the Late SIDNEY WEINER Announces the unveiling of a monument in his memory 1 P.m. Sunday, Oct. 35 at Clover Hill Memorial Park. Rabbi Litke will officiate. Bela- lives and friends are BARRY SHOWFER Announces the unveiling of a monument in his mem- ory 11 MUM Sunday, Oct. 25, at Beth El Memorial •Park. Rabbi Fram.will.of- Relate. Relatives and Mends are asked to at- tend. asked to attend. The Family of the Late ISAAC GLUCK The Family of the Late PERRY GOLDMAN Announces the postpone- ment of the unveiling of a monument in his mem- ory, originally scheduled Announces the =veins/ of a monument in his mem- ory 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct 25, at Oakview Cemetery. Rabbi Lehrman and Can- tar Klein will officiate. Relatives and Mends are asked to attend. for this Sunday. The Family of the Late The Fatally of the Late LAWRENCE KUNIN Announces the unveiling of a monument In his memory 2 p.m. SundaY, .Oct 25, at Hebrew Meow vial Park, Masker .Conne- tery.Helatives and friends are asked to attend. DR. HARRY KASHTAN Announces the unvelliags of a _monument In his memory 11 a.m. Sustay, Oct. 25 at Northwest He- brew Memorial Park. Rabbi Segal and Cantor Fenakel will officiate. Relatives me frieads are asked to attend. The Family of the Late The Family of the Late - GERTRUDE WEITZMAN Announces the unveiling of a monument in her memory 2 p.m. Sunday, Nev. 1, at Chased shot m • s Cemetery. Rabbi Zechariah will officiate. Relatives and. friends are asked to Mead.. HARRY WEINSTEIN Anuunees the unveiling of a monument in his memory 2:35 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, at Closed shel lbws Cemetery, Tamer Section. Rabbi Arm and Cantor Besmanis will of. Delete. Relatives and Mends are asked to at- tend.