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TOM, JUDI, LORI, SANDI, JEFF, KATHY, JACK & DANIEL FOX

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THE ISHBIAS DANA, OEL, MADDI & RYAN

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ARLENE & CHUCK BEERMAN & FAMILY

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MARK & .MARLA

DIANA LIEBERMAN

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T

he new dining room chairs at Lillian
and Samuel Hechtman Jewish
Apartments don't sit well with
Eleanor Smith of West Bloomfield.
Smith has to be careful buying furniture
small enough for her own 5-foot frame. Then
she went to visit an even smaller relative at
Hechtman.
"I hate to make waves," Smith said. "But they
really have to start thinking about their clientele."

A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our
Friends and Family.

"These chairs took over 11/2 years to pur-
chase," Kamin said. "We had an interior
designer from Chicago who specializes in geri-
atrics. We did focus groups with residents, staff
and family members."
The chairs are one step in a major renova-
tion of JAS residences, Kamin said. Other
changes include new carpets and wall coverings.
Each floor will have a different color scheme, to
make it easier for residents to identify their
floor. Style changes within individual apart-
ments include kitchen counters.
As the new chairs are received, JAS staff
members are cutting several inches from the
legs and replacing rollers with glides, so resi-
dents can move without having the chairs slide
out from under them.
"I think they're very comfortable, very attrac-
tive," said resident Ruth Jaslow, who is nearly
89. "But you can't pull them back and forth.
You have to get up."

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Hechtman resident Fannie May in one of the
chairs, which were tested by a selection of
residents, staff and family members before
being purchased.

While Smith feels the chairs are too tall, too
heavy and too hard to move for senior citizens,
Marcia Goldsmith Kamin, executive director of
Jewish Apartments and Services, takes an
opposing view.
"We've had many more compliments than
complaints," she said.
So far, JAS has purchased 262 of the dining
room-multipurpose chairs, at $315 each.
Another 200 more will be needed to furnish all
agency senior residences, including the Norma
Jean and Edward Meer Apartments, due to
open in November.
A committee of JAS staff, board, family and
community members selected the chairs.

Ruth Jaslow, who lives at Hechtman Apartments,
settles into one of the new chairs purchased for
the senior residence as a workman adds new
gliders to other chairs.