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that it is one of the best articles
I've read in regard to what is
happening to the Jewish homes
for aged in this city.
You expressed exactly what I
feel, as do many people to whom
I have spoken since the article ap-
peared.
We can't conceive how anyone
except the very rich can afford to
spend $72,000 for a year's care at
a nursing home.
What can be done? Where do
we go from here? It is a shame
that a city and its suburbs, with
about 90,000 Jewish people, can-
not support one Jewish home for
aged. I refuse to "sweep the el-
derly problem under the rug."
Certainly there are those who can
afford the $72,000 who could help
to build a home for those who
can't.
Dorothy Bodzin
Southfield
Elderly Needs
Are Served
Alan Hitsky's Editor's Notebook
in the Oct. 18 edition of The Jew-
ish News regarding the commu-
nity's treatment of its elderly
reveals that Mr. Hitsky has not
taken the time to inform himself
of what "our community" is do-
ing to provide for and enhance
the quality of life for our elder-
ly citizens and is not represen-
tative of the facts related to the
"official community's" treatment
of its elderly.
In the last 25 years or so, the
needs of and services to the el-
derly have increased dramati-
cally within the Jewish
community. Today, the Jewish
community sponsors and main-
tains approximately 620 one-
bedroom apartments for
independent elderly through
Jewish Federation Apartments,
108 beds at Fleischman Resi-
dence and has now facilitated
the creation of 376 nursing-home
beds between Menorah House in
Southfield and the new Danto
Nursing and Rehabilitation Cen-
ter on the West Bloomfield cam-
pus.
In addition, in-home and
group apartment programs for
the elderly are being maintained
by Jewish Family Service.
The realization today is that
too many families failed to fulfill
their family obligations to help
maintain the cost of their par-
ents at these facilities. Somehow
or other, it became expectant
that if you were old and Jewish,
notwithstanding your family's
ability to help carry the financial
burden, the community should
or would take care of your par-
ents, and it was the community's
obligation to do so.
In attempting to determine
how best to serve the needs of its
elderly, there was a realization
that those individuals who could
or families who were willing to
help maintain the financial re-
sponsibility of taking care of
their elderly also deserved a •
quality environment with Jew-
ish content. To allow the Danto
facility to provide that service,
and at the same time require it
to maintain 25 percent of its beds
for Medicaid, when its private
operators would certainly have
preferred not to, was an appro-
priate decision made by Federa-
tion.
In summary, through various
housing alternatives that have
responded to the needs of a
changing community, thou-
sands, instead of hundreds, are
now being served by the com-
munity; and the number of Med-
icaid beds in the community now
approaches 250, equal to or
greater than the number of Med-
icaid patients being served when
Borman Hall and Prentis Manor
were fully operational.
The community has not only
fulfilled its responsibility of
maintaining some type of finan-
cial integrity, but it is actually
now in a positive financial posi-
tion to not only maintain these
programs and expanded facili-
ties, but through its creation of
COJES, expand its elder care
services in general.
Michael P. Horowitz
Farmington Hills
AP