Kudos to Irene Zola, founder of Morningside Village in New York’s Upper West Side, for her profile in VOA News!
Morningside Village is a movement started in 2009 to help older adults in the area stay in their homes successfully. Here’s the story: http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/american-life/profiles/Irene-Zola-Fights-for-Rights-of-the-Elderly-98749744.html
Quote of the week: “Death is not the ultimate tragedy of life. The ultimate tragedy is depersonalization – dying (or living) in an alien and sterile area, separated from the spiritual nourishment that comes from being able to reach out to a loving hand, separated from a desire to experience things that make life worth living, separated from hope” Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness (1979) .
Beautiful quote from Cousins! It explains why so many older adults in nursing homes suffer from depression and why, according to a NY Times article last January, approximately 70% of residents are treated with psychotropic medication for depression. How wonderful that people like you are developing cost effective, life-affirming options to the traditional modern nursing home.