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MAPLE RD. 810.624-3060 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