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Coordinating
Elderly Services
Federation mounts search for COJES director and
commission members.
JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR
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STAFF WRITER
he Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit is
undertaking a national
search to staff a newly
formed commission that will co-
ordinate Jewish community ser-
vices for the elderly.
Howard Neistein, Federa-
tion's director of planning and
agency relations, said the plan
is to find a director for the Com-
mission on Jewish Eldercare
Services (COJES) and appoint
community members to its
board by September.
COJES is the latest step in
broadening the Federation's of-
ferings for the elderly, which in
the past emphasized skilled
nursing care. Federation's Bor-
man Hall closed in 1994, and
many of the residents were
transferred to the Medilodge
Group's Menorah House. Pren-
tis Manor will close by 1997 with
many of its residents moving to
Menorah House in Southfield or
a new nursing home under con-
struction at the Jewish Corn-
munity Campus in West
Bloomfield to be run by Health
Care Retirement (HCR) Corp.
Federation Apartments as
well as Fleischman Residence
will remain.
The boards of Federation and
the United Jewish Foundation
approved a plan this spring to
create and fund COJES follow-
ing a two-year study of the needs
and trends of the elderly.
"The impetus (for the study)
was the fact that the nature of
services to the aged which we
were providing in the Jewish
community had not had careful
scrutiny in several years," said
Mark Schlussel, former Feder-
ation president and the chair-
man of the Eldercare Options
Committee, which conducted the
study.
A task force of 31 community
members studied the anticipat-
ed demographic changes of the
elderly population. The findings
expect a larger group of people
who will live longer than past
generations. Members of that
population also will be more di-
verse, reflecting the immigra-
tion of Russian Jews in recent
years.
COJES will coordinate and
plan future Jewish communal
services to the aged. Each of the
participating Federation agen-
cies that provide services to the
elderly — Jewish Home for
Aged, Jewish Federation Apart-
ments, Jewish Community Cen-
ter, Jewish Family Service,
Jewish Vocational Service and
Sinai Hospital — will remain
autonomous.
COJES will also serve as the
"primary liaison between the
Jewish Federation's constituent
agencies and other non-Federa-
tion and governmental eldercare
organizations, as well as
HMOs," the task force's report
said.
"The commission is a plan-
ning entity that will look at what
services we want to provide, how
they complement what is offered
and how they will be imple-
mented," said Mr. Neistein.
The hope is that COJES will
broaden services. Included in the
recommendations are a chap-
laincy program for Jews living
in nursing homes not under Fed-
eration auspices, coordination
of in-home care and transporta-
tion for less-dependent senior
adults, and expansion of adult
day care.
The COJES budget, antici-
pated to be between $150,000
and $180,000 annually, will be
supplied by an allocation from
Federation. The budget will cov-
er the salaries of the director
and a secretary, as well as train-
ing and marketing. Services co-
ordinated by COJES but
provided to the community by
Federation agencies will be
funded by the agencies.
Within the past year, Feder-
ation allocated $541,087 to the
Jewish Home for Aged to subsi-
dize operations at Prentis Manor
and Fleischman Residence, and
to aid in the transition of resi-
dents from Borman Hall to
Menorah House. Federation will
conclude a contractual financial
obligation in 1998 to Medilodge
Group that covers the transition;
future Jewish services to Meno-
rah residents will continue to be
financed by Federation.
The task force recommended
that the annual allocation that
historically went to subsidize
the operation of Jewish Home
for Aged continue and be di-
rected in part to COJES. In ad-
dition, the group recommended
that a fund for the Jewish el-
derly be established, with its fu-
ture income going to support
COJES.
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