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effect on education, He did
say, however, that the
Federation has reached a
crossroads concerning educa-
tion, a turning point that will
put its educational funding
mechanisms and priorities
under the community micro-
scope.
"I'm going to do everything
I can to test this community,"
said Mr. Gelberd. "Before I
can say this injection of funds
to the Home is or isn't terri-
ble, we need to give the com-
munity a chance to rise to the
occasion of education. In the
past, it may have been that
the professional leadership
didn't excite money out of peo-
ple with relevant and appro-
priate programs for kids.
"Maybe the recent strides
we've made in educational
strategies are a lot of lip ser-
vice," he continues. "My sense
is that with some tangible
things in place, well see what
the Federation will do with its
priorities and we'll know in
the next one to three years if
it's all lip service.
"I'm not prepared to talk
about the Home in the context
of educating kids," Mr.
Gelberd said, "but I do know
we're losing more kids than
we're retaining. The issues at
the Home are equally relevant
and are at an emergency lev-
el; you just don't see blood and
disease in education, you see
minds disappear. In the fu-
ture, Federation will have to
respond to education in
Detroit. If it doesn't, then well
be turning out the lights here,
and making this a two-person
department with a social
worker."
Sinai Hospital's chief exec-
utive officer, Phillip Schaen-
gold, a member of the newly
created nine-member Jewish
Home for Aged board of di-
rectors, says no one is proud
of the mistakes at Borman.
But he cautions that the situ-
ation is improving and sug-
gests people do not dwell on
the past.
"What has happened here
is an aberration," Mr.
Schaengold says. 'The system
broke down between the gov-
ernment, Home management
and the clinical side, and it
took a great amount of mon-
ey to fix it.
"Don't look at it as 'Is this
the best we can do?' " he says.
"The community should pro-
vide a supported nursing fa-
cility for the Jewish elderly.
Whether a supported nursing

facility needs to be run by the
Jewish community needs to
be evaluated over the next two
years."
For the past several years,
other Federation supported
agencies like Jewish Family
Service, the Jewish Corn-
munity Center and Jewish
Vocational Service have been
struggling just to make ends
meet.
Repeatedly, the local
Jewish human service agen-
cies are asked to hold the line
on spending, to continue of-
fering adequate services with-
out additional grants or
subsidies from Federation, the
United Community Founda-
tion or the government. And,
somehow, each of these agen-
cies has managed to assist
members of the over-65 com-
munity with services that
make life a little easier.
The agencies are not deal-
ing with problems of the most
frail elderly, but they want
their fair share of assistance
for the aged and others. JFS
has a roster of 600 clients over
age 60, with 21 living in the
North Park Place non-insti-
tutionalized congregate living
apartment program.
Federation Apartments num-
ber 600.
Statistics show that 12 per-
cent of the U.S. population is
over age 65. Of those, 5 per-
cent are living in institutions.
The average age of a resident
of a Federation apartment is
79.JHA's population is some-
what older and much more
frail. The fastest growing seg-
ment of the population is over
80.
These are reasons agency
directors may be questioning
the amount of money spent on
JHA. They want the Home to
survive — and to remain
strong. But they also want the
community to pay better at-
tention to the rest of the el-
derly population and to the
agencies that serve the ma-
jority of those over age 65.
If this is the best Federation
can give, agency leaders sug-
gest it is time to take a lesson
from Borman Hall and re-
evaluate the total package of
elderly care.
JHA provides nursing
home and assisted-living
apartments for just over 400.
Other agencies assist greater
numbers. Perhaps, some
agency leaders suggest, the
money is not doled out even-
ly.
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