THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Family Service Seeks Applicants for Elderly Housing
Jewish Family Service is
seeking applicants for an
experimental Group Resi-
dences for Elderly program.
JFS President Gilbert B.
Silverman said the project
is aimed at senior adults
who are unable to manage
independent living but who
are not so infirm as to need
nursing home care. They
will be able to remain in the
ommunity in a family set-
ting, rather than an institu-
tional setting.
Each group residence will
be a three-bedroom, two-
bath apartment in a high-
rise apartment building lo-
cated near shops,
synagogues and bus lines.
Three senior adults will
share each apartment. Al-
together 12 persons in four
separate apartments will be
served during the experi-
mental phase of the pro-
gram, which has been
funded with a grant from
the Jewish Community
Foundation of United
Jewish Charities.
Residents' monthly fee
will include rent and all
utilities, food and the
services of a housekeeper
five half-days a week.
Residents who can't af-
ford the full fee, esti-
mated at $600 a month,
may be subsidized, Sil-
verman said. However,
subsidies are limited, and
the agency also is seeking
applicants who can pay
the full fee, perhaps with
assistance from their
families.
Our target groups are
people who just can't live
alone, either because of
physical handicaps or be-
cause they're becoming
forgetful as they grow older,
and who also have need for
socialization," said Arlene
Goldberg, casework super-
visor at Jewish Family
Service, a Jewish Welfare
Federation member agency.
For example, one gent-
leman whom we've accepted
into the program is a
widower who lived inde-
pendently in an apartment
until he fell and broke his
hip. He was in a nursing
home to convalesce, but now
he's better, although he's
still weak and must use a
cane to walk.
"Since his accident he's
been unable to manage his
wn apartment; he can't do
s own housework, laundry
1 1117 shopping. But he's alert
and sociable and still inde-
pendent — he doesn't want
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to go into a home for the
aged. The Group Residences
for Elderly program is per-
fect for him."
Paiticipants will have
to be able to take care of
themselves, Mrs.
Goldberg said. They'll
have to be able to use the
phone and stove and be
capable of bathing and
dressing themselves, but
the housekeeper will do
the shopping, cooking
and cleaning to the ex-
tent the seniors will need
assistance.
A few similar programs
are in existence in other
communities and they have
been working out well, she
said.
Two years of planning
went into the project, Sil-
verman said. The idea was
initiated by Joseph Garson
and Al Colman, past
presidents ofJewish Family
Service.
Marvin Daitch, who
chaired the project planning
committee and is currently
chairman of the agency
committee overseeing the
project, said the agency
hopes to have the first group
residents operating by the
end of November.
Residents will be
encouraged to furnish
their own bedrooms but
the common areas, such
as the living room and
kitchen, will be furnished
by Jewish Family Serv-
ice.
Zena Baum, a JFS social
worker, has been interview-
ing applicants for the pro-
gram.
"Compatibility is very
important when we decide
who should live together,"
she said. "It's hard for
,people who have been living
on their own to give up their
own home, so we're trying
very hard to find people who
will get along well together
and would enjoy the shared
living of a groups residence
in an apartment setting."
Persons interested in the
program should contact
Mrs. Baum at the Jewish
Family Service, 559-1500.
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