Enjoy the Best,
Year Round Living...

Sounds Great!

Music now rings true at Fleischman Residence,
thanks to a son's generosity.

We have what you want!

Spacious studio, 1- and 2-bedrooms
• Complimentary Carport
• Quality Appliances
• Swimming Pool and Clubhouse
• Cable Ready
• Large Closets and In-Home Storage
• Outstanding Location

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before we are born until the day we die,"
LISA FEIN
writes
the author, Joshua Leeds, a music
Special to the Jewish News
composer and sound researcher. "Hearing
is the first sense to develop in the human
he music sounds a lot nicer
fetus and it is the last to go before death."
around a West Bloomfield
Dr. Freedland asked Carol Rosenberg,
assisted living complex,
associate
director of the Jewish Home and
thanks to a Troy plastic and
ing Services, about the sound system.
reconstructive surgeon with a passion for
"I explained the system was 18 years old
music.
— the original one from the building,"
Dr. Michael Freedland has donated a
she said.
new sound system to the Fleischman
"It is so nice that a family member is so
Residence on the Eugene and Marcia
sensitive
to the needs of elderly people
Applebaum Jewish Community Campus.
and
believes
in the mission of caring for
"The beauty of a sound system is when
them. The average age of our
you notice it is not there," the
residents is 86 years old, with
Bloomfield Hills resident said.
Dr. Michael
the oldest being 101."
"When I currently visit, I now
Freedland with
Freedland asked Navot
hear the music, not the system.
his
mother,
Shoresh,
owner of
It's just radiant music that
Mary
Freedlanch
AudioVideo
by Design in
engulfs the room."
at
the
piano
in
Royal
Oak,
to
evaluate what
The doctor's mother, Mary
the
Fleischman
type
of
system
would be
and
has
lived
Freedland, is 77
Residence.
compatible and user-friendly
at Fleischman for three years.
for the staff to use on a daily
She studied opera at the New
basis. They chose a system
York School of Music and con-
that
allows
different
sounds to reach vari-
tinued her singing in Detroit with choirs
ous
parts
of
the
building.
It allows for the
and other groups. Today, she sings every
playing
of
cassettes
and
compact
discs,
afternoon at Fleischman.
making
announcements,
live
entertain-
Dr. Freedland knows how good music
ment and educational seminars. It comes
should sound — he and his four siblings
with handheld and cordless microphones.
studied operetta as teenagers at
Fleischman Administrator Barbra Giles
Interlochen music camp near Traverse
commented, "The new sound system has
City.
enhanced the quality of life here, tremen-
While visiting his mother last
dously. It meets our audio needs without
Chanukah, he listened to a husband and
crackling and feedback"
wife perform a family opera. "I was close
Eddie Schwartz, 83, a Fleischman resi-
enough to hear them without the sound
dent for 2'/2 years, had high praise for
system and they were in tune, but with
Freedland. "It was very nice of him. The
the system, they sounded out of key. It
sound is very good, much better than the
was very disheartening and disturbing,"
old system. It is loud and clear. This is
he said.
especially important for me since I am
The book The Power of Sound rein-
blind. You can even hear music in our
forces the Freedland family's appreciation
rooms from the system." ❑
for music. "Sound is impacting us from

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