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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Too young for you?\" I asked. \"I should say so,\" she said with a hearty laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her advice to the governor? \u003cem>Take care of yourself.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In order to get older we run into little problems and we have to watch those,\" she noted. \"It’s not that easy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her 87-year-old dining partner Bob Titlow said he thinks it's time for Brown to finally enjoy himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that man has given his blood for the state of California and for the good of our people and I think he ought to have a wonderful, wonderful retirement,\" Titlow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660499\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BobAndHilda-800x832.jpg\" alt=\"Hilda Richards, 100, and Bob Titlow, 87 are among the seniors who have advice for Gov. Jerry Brown as he turns 80.\" width=\"800\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BobAndHilda-800x832.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BobAndHilda-160x166.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BobAndHilda.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BobAndHilda-960x999.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BobAndHilda-240x250.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BobAndHilda-375x390.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BobAndHilda-520x541.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BobAndHilda-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hilda Richards, 100, and Bob Titlow, 87 are among the seniors who have advice for Gov. Jerry Brown as he turns 80. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sequoias resident Richard Williams, 83, didn't mince words about aging up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No matter how gooda shape you’re in, once you’re 80 you are one old 'motha',\" Williams chuckled. He said he stays young doing ceramics and hanging out with people younger than him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It brings you new ideas, keeps you up to date, let's you know what people are talking about, what people are interested in,\" Williams said. \"With younger people you’re talking about current events and even the language they use is different.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the room, the Sequoias Choir was warming up for their weekly class. When asked if they had any advice for the soon-to-be-80 governor, several suggested singing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s joyful. It lifts our spirits. And my guess is our governor already sings,\" said Suzie Keet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choir director Sharman Duran agreed the benefits of singing are many, especially for seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s so healthy,\" Duran said. \"You’re breathing. You have to think about your posture. And then you’re singing beautiful music. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María Martínez is the main caregiver for Agripina Castellanos, who turns 100 years old this June. Castellanos lives in Los Angeles, and she’s one of the elders of Angelus Plaza, the nation’s largest affordable senior housing project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s also one of a growing number of older adults living in the U.S. By 2020, there will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2016/03/07/the-caregiving-boom-where-the-job-opportunities-are/#e182bc05cfa4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">98 million people in the country over 65 years of age\u003c/a>, which means that caregivers like María will become more important than ever. Caregivers help allow seniors to stay in their homes — and in most cases, caregivers also provide something simple, yet vital: friendship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every day, Maria arrives at Agripina’s apartment at about 8:00 a.m. The two ladies sit and chat over breakfast, and then María helps Agripina take a shower and get dressed. Until recently, Agripina used to be able to tie her own shoes, but now María must help her with those, too. Same for cleaning the apartment and shopping for food. In a nutshell, María’s help is making it possible for Agripina to fend for herself as much as possible while she stays in her longtime home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell her, ‘If you go to one of these retirement communities, they’ll keep you in a wheelchair, and you’ll go from there to your bed,'” says María. “Instead, you’re here in your own home, for as long as you want and for as long as you can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agripina loves her independence and her rituals. On Fridays, she goes to the hair salon for a trim and a blowout with María by her side, who helps her push her walker toward the stylist’s chair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two ladies, both from Mexico, have been together now for 10 years. Yet Maria wasn’t trained for caregiving; she learned it by doing it on the job. Until she was in her mid-40s, María had been a traditional, stay-at-home housewife who raised four kids. She’d never had a paid job. Agripina has never married and has no kids. Her longtime companion, her twin sister, passed away long ago. At first, the two of them struggled to find common ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She used to have a really tough personality,” says María of her client. “But little by little, she has changed. When I first started working with her, I was really afraid. When you went into her apartment, before anything, you had to go wash your hands. She’s always been extremely clean. Now, I know what she likes, how she likes to carry herself. I try to keep her home clean, but she’s also not as rigid as she was before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29989_161203_bwaystories_0230-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"María Martínez helps Agripina Castellanos make her way home in her walker. Every week, she’s by her side for eight hours a day by cooking, cleaning, and managing her social life.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11656682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29989_161203_bwaystories_0230-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29989_161203_bwaystories_0230-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29989_161203_bwaystories_0230-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29989_161203_bwaystories_0230-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29989_161203_bwaystories_0230-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29989_161203_bwaystories_0230-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29989_161203_bwaystories_0230-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29989_161203_bwaystories_0230-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29989_161203_bwaystories_0230-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">María Martínez helps Agripina Castellanos make her way home in her walker. Every week, she’s by her side for eight hours a day by cooking, cleaning, and managing her social life.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Roberto (Bear) Guerra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With time, Agripina has become more easygoing and María has learned to accept Agripina’s quirks. In a way, their relationship has evolved into something that resembles the closeness between a mother and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single day she is at home with me,” says Agripina as she waits for María to finish preparing lunch in her kitchen. “She goes home when her shift is due until the next day. But I am always confident that I’ll see her the next day, even if she’s late.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mcmasteroptimalaging.org/blog/detail/professionals-blog/2016/04/08/loneliness-and-social-isolation-are-important-health-risks-in-the-elderly\">Researchers say\u003c/a> older adults are at an increased risk of being lonely. By the time people reach their 80s, the majority of them live on their own, like Agripina does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a long-term risk factor, loneliness ranks alongside obesity and alcohol abuse. According to a study from Brigham Young University, social isolation is just as likely to predict an early death as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the opposite is also true: companionship leads to better physical health and longer lives, and caregiving in particular can have far-reaching \u003ca href=\"http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691614568352?journalCode=ppsa\">benefits\u003c/a> for seniors, by fending off depression and chronic health conditions such as heart disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María makes $11 an hour as a caregiver — that’s only 50 cents more an hour than the minimum wage in Los Angeles — barely a livable wage. She works eight hours a day, from Monday through Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since her husband died of a stroke last year, María realized that she needed a new sense of purpose, and she needed to find ways to get out of the house and stay active. So she made the decision to work longer, and she’s happy to spend more time in Agripina’s company than she gets paid for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live relatively close to her, and every morning and every evening I give her a call,” María says. “If she doesn’t answer in the evening, I just come on over immediately. Because I wonder, what if she fell down? What if the phone isn’t working? Sometimes at 9 or 10 in the evening, outside of my shift, you’ll find me here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656681\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"María Martínez and Agripina Castellanos eat brunch together at Philippe’s, Agripina’s favorite restaurant in Los Angeles. Agripina has a big appetite, takes no medications, but religiously does take her vitamins.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11656681\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">María Martínez and Agripina Castellanos eat brunch together at Philippe’s, Agripina’s favorite restaurant in Los Angeles. Agripina has a big appetite, takes no medications, but religiously does take her vitamins. \u003ccite>(Roberto (Bear) Guerra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aside from their weekly session at the hair salon, María and Agripina do something together every week, outside of María’s paid working hours: Every Sunday morning, they head to Agripina’s favorite restaurant, Phillippe’s, in Los Angeles’ Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each one of them eats a full plate of pancakes, fried eggs and potatoes. Agripina has no serious health problems, takes no medications, but religiously takes her vitamins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I barely go to the doctor’s,” says Agripina between taking bites. “Not unless I have something that threatens to kill me; then I’ll go to him. Otherwise, I’m looking for the good things in life, so I can stick around longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they finish their brunch, María helps Agripina get up from her chair. 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Every week, she’s by her side for eight hours a day by cooking, cleaning, and managing her social life.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Roberto (Bear) Guerra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With time, Agripina has become more easygoing and María has learned to accept Agripina’s quirks. In a way, their relationship has evolved into something that resembles the closeness between a mother and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single day she is at home with me,” says Agripina as she waits for María to finish preparing lunch in her kitchen. “She goes home when her shift is due until the next day. But I am always confident that I’ll see her the next day, even if she’s late.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mcmasteroptimalaging.org/blog/detail/professionals-blog/2016/04/08/loneliness-and-social-isolation-are-important-health-risks-in-the-elderly\">Researchers say\u003c/a> older adults are at an increased risk of being lonely. By the time people reach their 80s, the majority of them live on their own, like Agripina does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a long-term risk factor, loneliness ranks alongside obesity and alcohol abuse. According to a study from Brigham Young University, social isolation is just as likely to predict an early death as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the opposite is also true: companionship leads to better physical health and longer lives, and caregiving in particular can have far-reaching \u003ca href=\"http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691614568352?journalCode=ppsa\">benefits\u003c/a> for seniors, by fending off depression and chronic health conditions such as heart disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María makes $11 an hour as a caregiver — that’s only 50 cents more an hour than the minimum wage in Los Angeles — barely a livable wage. She works eight hours a day, from Monday through Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since her husband died of a stroke last year, María realized that she needed a new sense of purpose, and she needed to find ways to get out of the house and stay active. So she made the decision to work longer, and she’s happy to spend more time in Agripina’s company than she gets paid for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live relatively close to her, and every morning and every evening I give her a call,” María says. “If she doesn’t answer in the evening, I just come on over immediately. Because I wonder, what if she fell down? What if the phone isn’t working? Sometimes at 9 or 10 in the evening, outside of my shift, you’ll find me here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656681\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"María Martínez and Agripina Castellanos eat brunch together at Philippe’s, Agripina’s favorite restaurant in Los Angeles. Agripina has a big appetite, takes no medications, but religiously does take her vitamins.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11656681\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29988_170113_bwaystories_1374-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">María Martínez and Agripina Castellanos eat brunch together at Philippe’s, Agripina’s favorite restaurant in Los Angeles. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Lincoln Heights Senior Center is a one-story, brick-and-cement building located a few minutes’ drive from downtown Los Angeles. It opens its doors at 8 a.m. every weekday, welcoming a largely Mexican and Central American community from throughout East LA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It offers all the activities that draw older adults to most senior centers: bingo, computer classes and subsidized meals. But there’s one weekly event that packs the house and gets everyone on their feet: the Thursday dance. So much so, the Center has gotten the reputation of being one of the liveliest places in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11648178\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29250_dance-1-GUERRA-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The entrance to the recreation room at the Lincoln Heights Senior Center, where a weekly dance party takes place every Thursday.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29250_dance-1-GUERRA-qut.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29250_dance-1-GUERRA-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29250_dance-1-GUERRA-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29250_dance-1-GUERRA-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29250_dance-1-GUERRA-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29250_dance-1-GUERRA-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29250_dance-1-GUERRA-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29250_dance-1-GUERRA-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29250_dance-1-GUERRA-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to the recreation room at the Lincoln Heights Senior Center, where a weekly dance party takes place every Thursday. \u003ccite>(Roberto (Bear) Guerra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But you must be 60 years or older to be allowed inside. Starting at noon, a four-person live band starts playing in the big recreation room, and the tables are pushed out of the way to make room for the dancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For $5 a pop, men and women come every week to dance for four hours straight to \u003cem>bachata\u003c/em>, \u003cem>cumbia\u003c/em>, \u003cem>merengue\u003c/em> and \u003cem>norteño\u003c/em> music. The music is loud. And the dance floor fills up quickly, especially when the band plays Spanish-language oldies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few of the dancers come as part of a couple; others come alone, eager to meet strangers and possible future dates. But Blanca Acosta and Erga Cruz, two longtime female friends, have been coming to the Thursday dance for over five years, and they have no interest in meeting anybody new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They love to gossip about some of the regulars: the ladies who come to the senior center looking for husbands; the men who go to the dances to pick up women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At least I don’t go there looking for men,” says 80-year-old Cruz. “You know what one of the guys told me last week? That he was going to go to the dance with you next time. And I told him, 'I doubt it, no way!' He’s a womanizer, a big womanizer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11648180\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29252_dance-3-GUERRA-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Bernabé Diaz, 65, is a native of El Salvador who’s been coming to the dance at the Lincoln Heights Senior Center for almost a decade.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29252_dance-3-GUERRA-qut.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29252_dance-3-GUERRA-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29252_dance-3-GUERRA-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29252_dance-3-GUERRA-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29252_dance-3-GUERRA-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29252_dance-3-GUERRA-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29252_dance-3-GUERRA-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29252_dance-3-GUERRA-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29252_dance-3-GUERRA-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernabé Diaz, 65, is a native of El Salvador who’s been coming to the dance at the Lincoln Heights Senior Center for almost a decade. \u003ccite>(Roberto (Bear) Guerra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Acosta, who is 65, says she and Cruz love to go to the dance to get out of the house, to move a bit, and to see their large group of friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I think about older people who don’t even have the desire to go out,” Acosta says. “Maybe they think they can’t do it, but they don’t even have to dance. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report Magazine is running a series on small, family-owned businesses in California. Got an idea for one? Send us a note at calreport@kqed.org\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Nash, 83, is from the snail-mail generation. And he's proud. \"I'm an old fuddy-duddy,\" he says. \"I don't have email. I don't use a cellphone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/11/FamilyBizBlueRIbbon.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/boxesedit.jpg\" Title=\"Family Biz: Bringing Seniors Some Love, the Old-School Way\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he treks down his driveway and up the block to his mailbox once or twice a day, hoping for something more exciting than junk mail. \"There's nothing in there,\" he says forlornly. \"I keep looking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nash lives in Granite Bay, in Placer County. His wife died a few years ago. He lives at home, alone. Watching him trudge to the mailbox gave his daughter-in-law, Kim Nash, an idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Thanksgiving, she sat down with her family to announce that she wanted to start \u003ca href=\"https://www.blueribbonbox.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blue Ribbon Box,\u003c/a> a weekly gift box service for seniors. Kind of like a subscription veggie box, but with things like tea, candy, crossword puzzles and uplifting quotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We purposely decided to go old school,\" says Kim. \"That’s what’s missing these days, a low-tech version of a touch. A handwritten note. The mints we’re sending out are things that have been around for years and years, not necessarily new candies, newfangled things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No Himalayan rock salt and caramel for these guys. Think Russell Stover and Sees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim hand-writes a card to each senior, signing on behalf of the families who subscribe to the box. Then she fills each custom box according to the family member's instructions: Sugar-free? Able to do crossword puzzles?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We often get things like: 'She’s living with dementia, she’s living at home, she loves cats, she loves sports.' Anything like that we’ll try to cater to,\" says Kim, as she places teabags and little toy owls in the box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11632873\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Blue Ribbon Box is kind of like a weekly veggie box, but instead it includes a handwritten card, chocolates, tea, crossword puzzles and uplifting quotes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Blue Ribbon Box comes with a handwritten card, chocolates, tea, crossword puzzles, and uplifting quotes. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"My father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's five years ago, and just passed away two weeks ago,\" she says. \"It was quite the journey. I’m realizing more of my friends in this age group... their parents are going through different struggles. How can we help [our parents] and make them happier? Unfortunately, their worlds are getting smaller, more isolated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>As she prints out the labels for the next batch of boxes, Kim says they’re not all for seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are also some recipients of our boxes that are in their 40s that have multiple sclerosis. We have a good friend who we send it to from our book club, who is in their 50s with Parkinson's. It's for anybody who gets isolated for any reason. Could be sickness, health, or age.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nash sons, Kyle and Austin, are involved in the business, too. They may not know what it’s like to have a parent with dementia, but they’re 20-somethings. They know about coding, web design -- something their mom wasn't prepared to tackle on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyle and Austin run the website and part of the shipping operation from an office in San Diego, where the brothers also run another business. Kim and Russ Nash says their kids were always entrepreneurs. As teenagers, they helped run the family's smoothie store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have some funny stories about selling rocks from our backyard thinking they’re diamonds and people buying them,\" laughs Kim. \"Lemonade stands in the front yard. So it did start young.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632859\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11632859\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kim and Russ Nash Skype with their sons Kyle and Austin, who run the San Diego office. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim and Russ Nash Skype with their sons Kyle and Austin, who run the San Diego office. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Working together with siblings and parents could be a recipe for disaster in some families. But for the Nash family, it works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody knows what their piece of the business is,\" explains Kyle. \"My brother’s picked up graphic design. I’ve learned the coding aspects. My dad does the marketing, deciding, the higher-level stuff. My mom is the energetic one that’s the go-getter that motivates the rest of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a business,\" says Russ Nash. \"It’s OK to have disagreements. It's OK to fight for your idea. We don’t turn around and argue on Thanksgiving day about, 'Oh you screwed up at this thing at work.' That’s separate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this isn’t just a two-generation family business. Grandpa Nash is the beta tester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I like it, [there's] gotta be some other old guys who would like it, too,\" he laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he tries to give constructive criticism to his daughter-in-law, and his grandson, who designs the activity books and crossword puzzles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Old people don’t see well, so you gotta have big dark print,\" he tells them. \"On the crossword puzzles, the first book had real small squares. There’s no way you could put a letter in that square.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gift boxes have mostly been popular with adult children of the elderly. But some grandkids are subscribing, too. Like 27-year-old Courtney De Groof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s my way of connecting with [my grandmother]. I’ve lived in California my whole life, she lives in Pennsylvania. My grandfather actually passed away in March -- 62 years they were married,\" says De Groof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her grandmother received her first box a few months ago, De Groff got an unexpected voicemail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[My grandmother] was crying out of joy, because it was just so special to her,\" says De Groof. \"Just a small box with some stuff in it, but to her it meant everything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632865\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11632865\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Nash, 83, gets his Blue Ribbon Box in the mail. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632867\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11632867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28114_IMG_0123-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28114_IMG_0123-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28114_IMG_0123-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28114_IMG_0123-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28114_IMG_0123-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28114_IMG_0123-qut-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28114_IMG_0123-qut.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nash family, founders of the Blue Ribbon Box. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kimberly Nash)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632868\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11632868\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russ and Kim Nash prepare the Blue Ribbon Boxes for delivery. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney says her grandmother doesn’t actually care what’s in the box. It’s just the anticipation that the mailman’s gonna come with something more than junk mail. And that someone is thinking of her.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Then she fills each custom box according to the family member's instructions: Sugar-free? Able to do crossword puzzles?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We often get things like: 'She’s living with dementia, she’s living at home, she loves cats, she loves sports.' Anything like that we’ll try to cater to,\" says Kim, as she places teabags and little toy owls in the box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11632873\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Blue Ribbon Box is kind of like a weekly veggie box, but instead it includes a handwritten card, chocolates, tea, crossword puzzles and uplifting quotes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28142__DSC0666-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Blue Ribbon Box comes with a handwritten card, chocolates, tea, crossword puzzles, and uplifting quotes. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"My father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's five years ago, and just passed away two weeks ago,\" she says. \"It was quite the journey. I’m realizing more of my friends in this age group... their parents are going through different struggles. How can we help [our parents] and make them happier? Unfortunately, their worlds are getting smaller, more isolated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>As she prints out the labels for the next batch of boxes, Kim says they’re not all for seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are also some recipients of our boxes that are in their 40s that have multiple sclerosis. We have a good friend who we send it to from our book club, who is in their 50s with Parkinson's. It's for anybody who gets isolated for any reason. Could be sickness, health, or age.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nash sons, Kyle and Austin, are involved in the business, too. They may not know what it’s like to have a parent with dementia, but they’re 20-somethings. They know about coding, web design -- something their mom wasn't prepared to tackle on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyle and Austin run the website and part of the shipping operation from an office in San Diego, where the brothers also run another business. Kim and Russ Nash says their kids were always entrepreneurs. As teenagers, they helped run the family's smoothie store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have some funny stories about selling rocks from our backyard thinking they’re diamonds and people buying them,\" laughs Kim. \"Lemonade stands in the front yard. So it did start young.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632859\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11632859\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kim and Russ Nash Skype with their sons Kyle and Austin, who run the San Diego office. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28117__DSC0690-qut-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim and Russ Nash Skype with their sons Kyle and Austin, who run the San Diego office. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Working together with siblings and parents could be a recipe for disaster in some families. But for the Nash family, it works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody knows what their piece of the business is,\" explains Kyle. \"My brother’s picked up graphic design. I’ve learned the coding aspects. My dad does the marketing, deciding, the higher-level stuff. My mom is the energetic one that’s the go-getter that motivates the rest of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a business,\" says Russ Nash. \"It’s OK to have disagreements. It's OK to fight for your idea. We don’t turn around and argue on Thanksgiving day about, 'Oh you screwed up at this thing at work.' That’s separate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this isn’t just a two-generation family business. Grandpa Nash is the beta tester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I like it, [there's] gotta be some other old guys who would like it, too,\" he laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he tries to give constructive criticism to his daughter-in-law, and his grandson, who designs the activity books and crossword puzzles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Old people don’t see well, so you gotta have big dark print,\" he tells them. \"On the crossword puzzles, the first book had real small squares. There’s no way you could put a letter in that square.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gift boxes have mostly been popular with adult children of the elderly. But some grandkids are subscribing, too. Like 27-year-old Courtney De Groof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s my way of connecting with [my grandmother]. I’ve lived in California my whole life, she lives in Pennsylvania. My grandfather actually passed away in March -- 62 years they were married,\" says De Groof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her grandmother received her first box a few months ago, De Groff got an unexpected voicemail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[My grandmother] was crying out of joy, because it was just so special to her,\" says De Groof. \"Just a small box with some stuff in it, but to her it meant everything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632865\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11632865\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28121__DSC0694-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Nash, 83, gets his Blue Ribbon Box in the mail. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632867\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11632867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28114_IMG_0123-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28114_IMG_0123-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28114_IMG_0123-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28114_IMG_0123-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28114_IMG_0123-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28114_IMG_0123-qut-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28114_IMG_0123-qut.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nash family, founders of the Blue Ribbon Box. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kimberly Nash)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632868\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11632868\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28137__DSC0662-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russ and Kim Nash prepare the Blue Ribbon Boxes for delivery. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A California judge could decide Tuesday if Gloria Single will be reunited with her husband, Bill. She's 83 years old. He's 93. The two have been married for 30 years. They lived in the same nursing home until last March, when Gloria Single was evicted without warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her situation isn't unique. Nationwide, eviction is \u003ca href=\"../../sections/health-shots/2017/05/26/529915765/states-try-to-keep-nursing-homes-from-kicking-out-less-lucrative-patients\">the leading complaint\u003c/a> about nursing homes. In California last year, more than 1,500 nursing home residents complained that they were discharged involuntarily. That's an increase of 73 percent since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gloria Single has a number of ailments. One of them is Alzheimer's disease. So when her son Aubrey Jones comes to visit her in her new nursing home, he brings old photos to show her. She can still recognize faces from long ago — one picture shows her three sons when they were just little kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says the photograph makes him and his brothers look like real troublemakers. \"You \u003cem>are\u003c/em> troublemakers,\" his mom teases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones also shows his mother a more recent photo. It was taken at \u003ca href=\"http://pioneerhouseretirement.org/\">Pioneer House\u003c/a>, the nursing home where Gloria Single and her husband Bill lived together before her eviction. They're gazing into each other's eyes and smiling.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jones tells her he loves that photo, Gloria Single slyly replies that's \"because [Bill's] got his hand on my knee.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/563710785/563894885\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court documents, Pioneer House \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4199719-2017-10-30-REDACTED-Memorandum-of-Points-amp.html\">paints a more troubling picture\u003c/a> of Gloria Single. They say that she became aggressive with staff and threw some plastic tableware. So Pioneer House called an ambulance and sent her to a hospital for a psychological evaluation. The hospital found nothing wrong with her, but the nursing home wouldn't take her back. They said they couldn't care for someone with her needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones protested his mother's eviction to the California Department of Health Care Services. The department held a hearing. Jones won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I expected action — definitely expected action,\" says Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he got an email explaining that the department that holds the hearings has no authority to enforce its own rulings. Enforcement is handled by a different state agency. He could start over with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Catch-22 situation attracted the interest of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aarp.org/aarp-foundation/our-work/legal-advocacy/\">legal wing of the AARP Foundation\u003c/a>. Last year, attorneys there asked the federal government to open a civil rights investigation into the way California deals with nursing home evictions. Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4199718-2017-10-02-Complaint.html\">they're suing Pioneer House and its parent company\u003c/a> on Gloria Single's behalf. It's the first time the AARP has taken a legal case dealing with nursing home eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We certainly hope we can get Mrs. Single some relief,\" says\u003ca href=\"https://www.aarp.org/aarp-foundation/about-us/executive-leadership/William-Alvarado-Rivera.html\"> William Alvarado Rivera\u003c/a>, the foundation's senior vice president for litigation. \"But we also hope that there is a lesson to be learned by facilities — that there will be accountability for their failure to respect the due process rights of their residents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"rPY3MaOt8WyaGCMxvxZC4Oj8iTbYiiey\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nursing home residents have a lot of \u003ca href=\"https://downloads.cms.gov/medicare/Your_Resident_Rights_and_Protections_section.pdf\">rights\u003c/a> guaranteed in state and federal law. For example, they have to be given 30 days' notice before they're moved involuntarily. And the nursing home has to hold their bed for a week if they're in the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera says Gloria Single didn't get any of that. As a result, she was stuck in the hospital for four and a half months before being accepted by another facility. During that time Single received none of the services and activities she would have had in a nursing home. She lost her ability to walk and now relies on a wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera says that \"in the absence of state enforcement, it will depend on individuals like Mrs. Single having to advocate for themselves to get their rights respected and enforced.\"\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourteen years of public records obtained by NPR show that nursing homes rarely pay a price for illegally evicting residents. Just 7 percent of nursing homes that were found to have violated the law in California were fined by the state. With just a couple of exceptions, the highest fines assessed were $2,000. The majority were $1,000 or less — and most fines were never paid in full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.chhs.ca.gov/Pages/Secretary-Diana-S.-Dooley.aspx\">Diana Dooley\u003c/a>, California's secretary of health and human services, declined NPR's request for an interview, citing pending litigation against the state on a similar issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustration with the lack of state enforcement led the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cltcoa.org/\">California Long-Term Care Ombudsman Association\u003c/a> to join the Single lawsuit as a co-plaintiff. The organization represents long-term-care ombudsmen. Those are the public officials who track complaints about nursing homes and advocate for residents. But Leza Coleman, the group's executive director, says the spike in complaints about evictions is so overwhelming, that it's \"impacting our ability to handle other complaints.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coleman believes another reason that eviction complaints are going up, is that the number of nursing homes is going down. State records show there are about 2,300 fewer beds in California than there were six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"xVTnNyConmEqWx4YB2WsyTEJ0kMx0Dwh\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those residents that are more challenging — those that have to be repositioned often, those that don't want to sit quietly and watch television — ... they're more expensive,\" she says. \"They can be very taxing on the staff of a facility, and if a facility has one bed and two people looking at it, they're going to take the person that's easier to care for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But eviction complaints need to be seen in a different context, says Jim Gomez, CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cahf.org/\">California Association of Health Facilities\u003c/a>. \"We have a very low rate of complaints regarding discharge,\" he says, adding that roughly 1,500 complaints is \"less than a half of 1 percent of some 300,000 discharges\" a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when residents are involuntarily discharged, Gomez says, \"it's for the safety of staff and other residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've had many attacks on residents and staff,\" he says. \"Are you going to allow that person back to the facility?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pioneer House and its parent corporation, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.rhf.org/\">Retirement Housing Foundation\u003c/a>, declined to be interviewed for this story. They sent a written statement which says, in part, \"We intend to vigorously defend the allegation set forth in the lawsuit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Aubrey Jones says the lawsuit is not just about his mother any more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If anything,\" he says, \"I want the dial to be turned a little bit so this thing doesn't happen again --[so] it's less likely to happen to someone else.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of all, Jones says, he wants to see his mother and stepfather reunited, so they can be together for the little bit of time they have left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=AARP+Foundation+Sues+Nursing+Home+To+Stop+Illegal+Evictions&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A California judge could decide Tuesday if Gloria Single will be reunited with her husband, Bill. She's 83 years old. He's 93. The two have been married for 30 years. They lived in the same nursing home until last March, when Gloria Single was evicted without warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her situation isn't unique. Nationwide, eviction is \u003ca href=\"../../sections/health-shots/2017/05/26/529915765/states-try-to-keep-nursing-homes-from-kicking-out-less-lucrative-patients\">the leading complaint\u003c/a> about nursing homes. In California last year, more than 1,500 nursing home residents complained that they were discharged involuntarily. That's an increase of 73 percent since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gloria Single has a number of ailments. One of them is Alzheimer's disease. So when her son Aubrey Jones comes to visit her in her new nursing home, he brings old photos to show her. She can still recognize faces from long ago — one picture shows her three sons when they were just little kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says the photograph makes him and his brothers look like real troublemakers. \"You \u003cem>are\u003c/em> troublemakers,\" his mom teases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones also shows his mother a more recent photo. It was taken at \u003ca href=\"http://pioneerhouseretirement.org/\">Pioneer House\u003c/a>, the nursing home where Gloria Single and her husband Bill lived together before her eviction. They're gazing into each other's eyes and smiling.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jones tells her he loves that photo, Gloria Single slyly replies that's \"because [Bill's] got his hand on my knee.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/563710785/563894885\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court documents, Pioneer House \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4199719-2017-10-30-REDACTED-Memorandum-of-Points-amp.html\">paints a more troubling picture\u003c/a> of Gloria Single. They say that she became aggressive with staff and threw some plastic tableware. So Pioneer House called an ambulance and sent her to a hospital for a psychological evaluation. The hospital found nothing wrong with her, but the nursing home wouldn't take her back. They said they couldn't care for someone with her needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones protested his mother's eviction to the California Department of Health Care Services. The department held a hearing. Jones won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I expected action — definitely expected action,\" says Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he got an email explaining that the department that holds the hearings has no authority to enforce its own rulings. Enforcement is handled by a different state agency. He could start over with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Catch-22 situation attracted the interest of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aarp.org/aarp-foundation/our-work/legal-advocacy/\">legal wing of the AARP Foundation\u003c/a>. Last year, attorneys there asked the federal government to open a civil rights investigation into the way California deals with nursing home evictions. Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4199718-2017-10-02-Complaint.html\">they're suing Pioneer House and its parent company\u003c/a> on Gloria Single's behalf. It's the first time the AARP has taken a legal case dealing with nursing home eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We certainly hope we can get Mrs. Single some relief,\" says\u003ca href=\"https://www.aarp.org/aarp-foundation/about-us/executive-leadership/William-Alvarado-Rivera.html\"> William Alvarado Rivera\u003c/a>, the foundation's senior vice president for litigation. \"But we also hope that there is a lesson to be learned by facilities — that there will be accountability for their failure to respect the due process rights of their residents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nursing home residents have a lot of \u003ca href=\"https://downloads.cms.gov/medicare/Your_Resident_Rights_and_Protections_section.pdf\">rights\u003c/a> guaranteed in state and federal law. For example, they have to be given 30 days' notice before they're moved involuntarily. And the nursing home has to hold their bed for a week if they're in the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera says Gloria Single didn't get any of that. As a result, she was stuck in the hospital for four and a half months before being accepted by another facility. During that time Single received none of the services and activities she would have had in a nursing home. She lost her ability to walk and now relies on a wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera says that \"in the absence of state enforcement, it will depend on individuals like Mrs. Single having to advocate for themselves to get their rights respected and enforced.\"\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourteen years of public records obtained by NPR show that nursing homes rarely pay a price for illegally evicting residents. Just 7 percent of nursing homes that were found to have violated the law in California were fined by the state. With just a couple of exceptions, the highest fines assessed were $2,000. The majority were $1,000 or less — and most fines were never paid in full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.chhs.ca.gov/Pages/Secretary-Diana-S.-Dooley.aspx\">Diana Dooley\u003c/a>, California's secretary of health and human services, declined NPR's request for an interview, citing pending litigation against the state on a similar issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustration with the lack of state enforcement led the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cltcoa.org/\">California Long-Term Care Ombudsman Association\u003c/a> to join the Single lawsuit as a co-plaintiff. The organization represents long-term-care ombudsmen. Those are the public officials who track complaints about nursing homes and advocate for residents. But Leza Coleman, the group's executive director, says the spike in complaints about evictions is so overwhelming, that it's \"impacting our ability to handle other complaints.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coleman believes another reason that eviction complaints are going up, is that the number of nursing homes is going down. State records show there are about 2,300 fewer beds in California than there were six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those residents that are more challenging — those that have to be repositioned often, those that don't want to sit quietly and watch television — ... they're more expensive,\" she says. \"They can be very taxing on the staff of a facility, and if a facility has one bed and two people looking at it, they're going to take the person that's easier to care for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But eviction complaints need to be seen in a different context, says Jim Gomez, CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cahf.org/\">California Association of Health Facilities\u003c/a>. \"We have a very low rate of complaints regarding discharge,\" he says, adding that roughly 1,500 complaints is \"less than a half of 1 percent of some 300,000 discharges\" a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when residents are involuntarily discharged, Gomez says, \"it's for the safety of staff and other residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've had many attacks on residents and staff,\" he says. \"Are you going to allow that person back to the facility?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pioneer House and its parent corporation, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.rhf.org/\">Retirement Housing Foundation\u003c/a>, declined to be interviewed for this story. They sent a written statement which says, in part, \"We intend to vigorously defend the allegation set forth in the lawsuit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Aubrey Jones says the lawsuit is not just about his mother any more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If anything,\" he says, \"I want the dial to be turned a little bit so this thing doesn't happen again --[so] it's less likely to happen to someone else.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Her students have also been introduced to an array of social tech tools; some of the group’s favorite are FaceTime and Skype for video chatting and Messenger for sharing photos. Many in the group use their iPads to tune in the radio or podcasts, and one has \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/MJofSanFran\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">her own YouTube channel\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The last few classes have been devoted to iPad photography, so today everyone is editing their best shots. In one corner, Marilyn Chan and Shirley Smith keep leaning over to see what’s happening on each other’s screens. Chan is polishing up a selfie of the two of them making the most of Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day. Across the room, Linda Rospendowski, 68, is contemplating a photo of herself in a hot pink dress. 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Prime candidates are elderly people who live in rural areas, are estranged or live far from family, or have health or mobility problems that make it difficult to get around.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_414753\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 386px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-414753 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda Rospendowski, 68, and Orazgul Tachmuradova, 71, work on editing their photos. \u003ccite>(Kara Platoni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Lisa Marsh Ryerson, president of the AARP Foundation, a charitable affiliate of the advocacy group for seniors, points out that 10,000 Americans turn 65 every day. But despite their numbers, baby boomers don’t always feel like they’re aging together. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“As many as 40 percent of adults who are 65 or older say that they experience significant loneliness,” says Ryerson.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Loneliness isn’t quite the same thing as being alone, but both can influence health. “Loneliness is something that is subjective. It’s our own perception of our experiences,” says Ryerson. It is also one measure of distress. Isolation, on the other hand, is an objective metric, “based on the size of someone’s social network, the frequency of contact with their social network and their access to services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">[contextly_sidebar id=\"pJzqgRcGnSSnAs2omLf83MRF0ZoTRCKk\"]Isolation can cause health problems even for a person who feels perfectly satisfied with a small or distant network. (Imagine not knowing anyone nearby who can check on you when you’re ill.) Ryerson says isolation is often triggered by loss of hearing or mobility, a move to a new community or a partner’s death, and it’s especially common among those who are low-income or identify as a member of a marginalized group.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">To address the problem, the AARP Foundation recently launched \u003ca href=\"https://connect2affect.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Connect2Affect\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, a resource portal for older adults and caregivers that encourages online engagement, and includes a \u003ca href=\"https://connect2affect.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/A-Profile-of-Social-Connectedness.pdf\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">study of social connectedness among people over age 62\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://aarptek.aarp.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">AARP Academy\u003c/span>\u003c/a> also offers free online tutorials for using smartphones, tablets or social media, and for conducting job searches on the internet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, the National Council on Aging completed its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncoa.org/healthy-aging/aging-mastery-program/\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">two-year tablet program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, similar to Curry’s. The result? “The more time [participants] were spending on the tablets, the stronger their social interactions, their emotional support, self-esteem,” says \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s4\">Susan Stiles, senior director of product development and strategy for the group. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Getting Seniors Connected\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Yet enticing people online isn’t always easy. According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/05/17/technology-use-among-seniors/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">study \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"s2\">released in May by the Pew Research Center\u003c/span>, while mobile device use is climbing among seniors, still only about a third own a tablet, 42 percent own smartphones, and just over half have broadband at home. Only about a third use social media.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“There were some fears going into the project,” says Stiles of the NCOA program. “People did not necessarily think that a tablet computer had any relevancy for their lives. They had privacy concerns and were afraid of potentially being exposed to scams.” (Ditto the Curry class, where people asked pointed questions about putting credit card information on their iPad and worried about being unfairly charged when ordering photo prints online.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">For the NCOA program, the trick was helping users find their personal killer app. For a former taxi driver now in his 90s, it was Google Maps. Stiles recalls a colleague asking the man to name some streets on his old route. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“She zoomed in on these streets and his eyes just lit up, \" Stiles says. \"And then he wanted to go everywhere in New York City.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">For a former B-movie actress, the most alluring app was YouTube, where she found her old film clips.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Tablets seem to be a nice middle ground for those who are skeptical of full-sized computers. You can use voice commands instead of struggling with a mouse or keyboard; they fit neatly into a small living space like a senior apartment; and you can use them while sitting in your favorite comfy chair. “It doesn't feel like this weighty technology object,” says Stiles. “It really feels like a book.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Designing for Seniors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Pittsburgh-based Breezie, which sells tech solutions for seniors and \u003ca href=\"https://www.breezie.com/breezie-in-action/breezie-brings-online-benefits-to-seniors-in-florida/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">partnered with the NCOA on its program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, is trying to make Android-based devices even easier for new users by offering a service that simplifies a tablet’s interface. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“If you went right now to a Best Buy and if you bought a tablet to give to a senior, there are 43 different settings you would want to change before you make it senior-friendly,”\u003cb> \u003c/b>says CEO and founder Jeh Kazimi. He means things that Breezie can pre-adjust, like brightness and volume, consolidating logins, and making the screen more forgiving if you accidentally put your thumb on it. The company is also trying to develop a way to cancel out hand tremor for people with Parkinson's disease, because uneven pressure can make the tablet think a user is swiping when they mean to click.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_415056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-415056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1020x804.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1020x804.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-800x631.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-768x605.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1180x930.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-960x757.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-240x189.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-375x296.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-520x410.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaycee Springer, 65, polishes up her photo of the sun setting over San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Kara Platoni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Caregivers or Breezie staff can also curate each person’s desktop, like providing ready-made YouTube playlists for fans of jazz music or Muhammad Ali’s boxing matches. For an avid gardener, Kazimi says, they might install a few outdoorsy apps “that don’t show you ads every two minutes or ask you to upgrade every three minutes.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">But tablets aren’t a foolproof platform. Kazimi has seen seniors who need stickers to label the camera, volume and charging socket, because the devices can suddenly flip screen orientation, leaving confused people holding them upside down and wondering where the buttons are. Di Martino encountered some unexpected hurdles, too, “like a couple of the men in the class didn't know how to type.” She helped get people comfortable with the touchscreen by offering styluses, which are more accurate pointing tools than fingers. And she encouraged her students to feel OK about making mistakes. “Sometimes I tell them, ‘I don’t know what that button does. Let’s hit it,’” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Dip in Loneliness\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The seniors in the Curry program report different feelings about living alone—for example, Kaycee Springer enjoys it and is content using video chat to keep in touch with her daughters long-distance. But she does feel a bit socially crimped in the Tenderloin, where it doesn't always seem safe to walk around, especially at night. And she knows some of her elderly neighbors are extremely withdrawn. “There are people in my building, they just lay around and do absolutely nothing,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Di Martino has put together some preliminary stats from surveying participants at the program’s 6-month point. Almost all of the seniors said they used their iPad daily. As with the NCOA program, she noted a slight dip in reported loneliness. But the leaders of both projects say it’s hard to know if that stems from people making friends in class or becoming more social online. The AARP’s Ryerson says you might as well encourage both, so that technological and real-world connections reinforce each other. For example, she says, “FitBits are about taking steps. So let’s walk together.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">At the Curry Center, one other result is very clear: Now that the class is ending, nobody wants to give up their iPads. \"We just started!” exclaims Tachmuradova.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Springer still finds her tablet hard to put down: “I will put it on my bed—and then I will go, ‘\u003ci>It’s calling me\u003c/i>.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Di Martino says not to worry—they’re looking into a second phase that will allow everyone to keep their tablets, perhaps in exchange for peer mentoring the next round of students. Now that she’s taught them every iPad trick she knows, their new challenge will be teaching each other. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The iPad is like a \u003cem>genie\u003c/em>,” she says. She mimes pressing a button: “Hello, Siri? Tell me this one!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Tachmuradova and Siri started conversing during a year-long pilot project, now coming to an end, at San Francisco’s \u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ca href=\"http://curryseniorcenter.org\">Curry Senior Center\u003c/a>. Seventeen s\u003c/span>eniors were given iPads, FitBits and digital scales to monitor their health, and to reduce isolation by teaching them how to socialize, learn and enjoy themselves online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> “When I started this program, I was reborn,” says Tachmuradova. “I am becoming alive! More and more now, we are busy. I don’t feel I am alone. I live alone without \u003ci>being\u003c/i> alone.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">All of the program’s seniors live alone, and most are very low-income.\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“Some people felt isolated, technologically-wise, because they didn't know what other people were doing on the internet,” says Angela Di Martino, who teaches the weekly class on how to use the devices. “Now I think they feel a lot more comfortable because they have that knowledge.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I live alone without \u003ci>being\u003c/i> alone.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Di Martino devoted early lessons to finding trustworthy medical information on the web, emailing your doctor and checking lab results online. Her students have also been introduced to an array of social tech tools; some of the group’s favorite are FaceTime and Skype for video chatting and Messenger for sharing photos. Many in the group use their iPads to tune in the radio or podcasts, and one has \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/MJofSanFran\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">her own YouTube channel\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The last few classes have been devoted to iPad photography, so today everyone is editing their best shots. In one corner, Marilyn Chan and Shirley Smith keep leaning over to see what’s happening on each other’s screens. Chan is polishing up a selfie of the two of them making the most of Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day. Across the room, Linda Rospendowski, 68, is contemplating a photo of herself in a hot pink dress. But she has a problem: The photographer has chopped off the top of her head, and she's wondering if you can digitally repair hair. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“The bouffant—it has to be there,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>America: Getting Old\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As baby boomers head into their 60s and 70s, advocacy groups are now exploring the benefits of this kind of tech education for seniors. Prime candidates are elderly people who live in rural areas, are estranged or live far from family, or have health or mobility problems that make it difficult to get around.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_414753\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 386px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-414753 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda Rospendowski, 68, and Orazgul Tachmuradova, 71, work on editing their photos. \u003ccite>(Kara Platoni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Lisa Marsh Ryerson, president of the AARP Foundation, a charitable affiliate of the advocacy group for seniors, points out that 10,000 Americans turn 65 every day. But despite their numbers, baby boomers don’t always feel like they’re aging together. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“As many as 40 percent of adults who are 65 or older say that they experience significant loneliness,” says Ryerson.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Loneliness isn’t quite the same thing as being alone, but both can influence health. “Loneliness is something that is subjective. It’s our own perception of our experiences,” says Ryerson. It is also one measure of distress. Isolation, on the other hand, is an objective metric, “based on the size of someone’s social network, the frequency of contact with their social network and their access to services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Isolation can cause health problems even for a person who feels perfectly satisfied with a small or distant network. (Imagine not knowing anyone nearby who can check on you when you’re ill.) Ryerson says isolation is often triggered by loss of hearing or mobility, a move to a new community or a partner’s death, and it’s especially common among those who are low-income or identify as a member of a marginalized group.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">To address the problem, the AARP Foundation recently launched \u003ca href=\"https://connect2affect.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Connect2Affect\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, a resource portal for older adults and caregivers that encourages online engagement, and includes a \u003ca href=\"https://connect2affect.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/A-Profile-of-Social-Connectedness.pdf\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">study of social connectedness among people over age 62\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://aarptek.aarp.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">AARP Academy\u003c/span>\u003c/a> also offers free online tutorials for using smartphones, tablets or social media, and for conducting job searches on the internet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, the National Council on Aging completed its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncoa.org/healthy-aging/aging-mastery-program/\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">two-year tablet program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, similar to Curry’s. The result? “The more time [participants] were spending on the tablets, the stronger their social interactions, their emotional support, self-esteem,” says \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s4\">Susan Stiles, senior director of product development and strategy for the group. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Getting Seniors Connected\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Yet enticing people online isn’t always easy. According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/05/17/technology-use-among-seniors/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">study \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"s2\">released in May by the Pew Research Center\u003c/span>, while mobile device use is climbing among seniors, still only about a third own a tablet, 42 percent own smartphones, and just over half have broadband at home. Only about a third use social media.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“There were some fears going into the project,” says Stiles of the NCOA program. “People did not necessarily think that a tablet computer had any relevancy for their lives. They had privacy concerns and were afraid of potentially being exposed to scams.” (Ditto the Curry class, where people asked pointed questions about putting credit card information on their iPad and worried about being unfairly charged when ordering photo prints online.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">For the NCOA program, the trick was helping users find their personal killer app. For a former taxi driver now in his 90s, it was Google Maps. Stiles recalls a colleague asking the man to name some streets on his old route. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“She zoomed in on these streets and his eyes just lit up, \" Stiles says. \"And then he wanted to go everywhere in New York City.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">For a former B-movie actress, the most alluring app was YouTube, where she found her old film clips.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Tablets seem to be a nice middle ground for those who are skeptical of full-sized computers. 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He means things that Breezie can pre-adjust, like brightness and volume, consolidating logins, and making the screen more forgiving if you accidentally put your thumb on it. The company is also trying to develop a way to cancel out hand tremor for people with Parkinson's disease, because uneven pressure can make the tablet think a user is swiping when they mean to click.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_415056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-415056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1020x804.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1020x804.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-800x631.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-768x605.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1180x930.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-960x757.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-240x189.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-375x296.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-520x410.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaycee Springer, 65, polishes up her photo of the sun setting over San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Kara Platoni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Caregivers or Breezie staff can also curate each person’s desktop, like providing ready-made YouTube playlists for fans of jazz music or Muhammad Ali’s boxing matches. For an avid gardener, Kazimi says, they might install a few outdoorsy apps “that don’t show you ads every two minutes or ask you to upgrade every three minutes.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">But tablets aren’t a foolproof platform. Kazimi has seen seniors who need stickers to label the camera, volume and charging socket, because the devices can suddenly flip screen orientation, leaving confused people holding them upside down and wondering where the buttons are. Di Martino encountered some unexpected hurdles, too, “like a couple of the men in the class didn't know how to type.” She helped get people comfortable with the touchscreen by offering styluses, which are more accurate pointing tools than fingers. And she encouraged her students to feel OK about making mistakes. “Sometimes I tell them, ‘I don’t know what that button does. Let’s hit it,’” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Dip in Loneliness\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The seniors in the Curry program report different feelings about living alone—for example, Kaycee Springer enjoys it and is content using video chat to keep in touch with her daughters long-distance. But she does feel a bit socially crimped in the Tenderloin, where it doesn't always seem safe to walk around, especially at night. And she knows some of her elderly neighbors are extremely withdrawn. “There are people in my building, they just lay around and do absolutely nothing,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Di Martino has put together some preliminary stats from surveying participants at the program’s 6-month point. Almost all of the seniors said they used their iPad daily. 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"content": "\u003cp>Going to the mall with my grandmother has been a staple of our \"girls time\" for years. Now our shopping trips include stops at the supermarket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health issues have made it difficult for both her and my grandfather to drive to the grocery store, so sometimes I make the drive from Oakland to Richmond to take them there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandparents are fortunate that they have family nearby to help them with their grocery shopping, but not everyone has access to that kind of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Oakland seniors report skipping meals to pay for housing and other necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We estimate somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of all seniors go hungry on a daily basis in Oakland,” said Bryan Ricks, a member of the Oakland Mayor’s Commission on Aging. He defines a person suffering from hunger as anyone who does not consume at least one meal a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Probably the two biggest issues that are facing seniors are housing and hunger,\" Ricks said. \"People have to prioritize where to spend their resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Help Hits the Road\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>To help get food to seniors in need, \u003ca href=\"https://mercybrownbag.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mercy Brown Bag Program\u003c/a> launched a mobile grocery truck. The truck drives to seniors and, with the push of a button, features shelving that comes down to allow them to shop free of charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truck is expected to feed 2,500 seniors annually, on top of Mercy Brown Bag's existing efforts to feed low-income seniors in Alameda County. A shortage of warehouse space and requests for easier access to food prompted the program to hit the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kept getting all of these phone calls from people who couldn’t make it to our sites who needed delivery and didn’t have anyone in the community to help them,\" said Mercy Brown Bag Program Director Krista Lucchesi. \"We wanted to make sure we could get to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11515001\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11515001\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Grocery truck volunteer and recipient Iraneo Garcia chats with Mercy Brown Bag Program Assistant Director Nicole St. Lawrence about how to cook lentils.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grocery truck volunteer and recipient Iraneo Garcia chats with Mercy Brown Bag Program Assistant Director Nicole St. Lawrence about how to cook lentils. \u003ccite>(Jenee Darden/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I met up with Lucchesi and her staff at their pilot site at Eden Issei Terrace, a residential housing community for low-income seniors in Hayward. The truck's shelves hanging from the side are easily accessible for people in wheelchairs. Volunteers are there to help the recipients bag their goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those volunteers -- and recipients -- is 84-year-old Iraneo Garcia. He and his wife waited four years to get into Eden Issei Terrace. Garcia retired 17 years ago from the San Francisco Carpenters Union and said things were fine then. But as housing costs soared, his dollars didn’t stretch as far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The money doesn’t even reach a quarter of as far as I used to get,” said Garcia. “We rented one room from family because we could not afford a house or apartment. And we finally got this place, which is very nice. With this food [truck] around it helps us with the rent and our living. It’s good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I watched as people lined up to get their fresh fruits, veggies, lentils, rice and potatoes. I even shared with them how I prepare my yams and lentils. The mobile grocery truck allows a space for seniors to socialize too, which is a plus for seniors who face isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The people here are happy,\" said volunteer Lilian Mira, who was all smiles. She doesn't drive and also uses the service. \"It will help our little economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11514968\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11514968\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Crates of fresh fruits and veggies line the inside of the grocery truck for seniors.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crates of fresh fruits and veggies line the inside of the grocery truck for seniors. \u003ccite>(Jenee Darden/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Health problems, high cost of living and lack of access to transportation make it difficult for seniors to get food. A long-term \u003ca href=\"https://www.aaa1b.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Health-Consequences-of-Food-Insecurity-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> from 2014 found there's a domino effect to senior hunger. Lack of nutrition -- whether from not eating or choosing cheaper and unhealthier food -- can increase a senior's risk of depression, heart failure, asthma and other ailments. Lucchesi and Ricks said it’s important to act now, especially as senior populations are expected to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11515004\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11515004 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"(l-r) Mercy Brown Bag Program's Assistant Director Nicole St. Lawrence and Director Krista Lucchesi after supplying free groceries to seniors in Hayward with the truck.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Mercy Brown Bag Program's Assistant Director Nicole St. Lawrence and Director Krista Lucchesi after supplying free groceries to seniors in Hayward. \u003ccite>(Jenee Darden/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can visit the \u003ca href=\"https://mercybrownbag.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mercy Brown Bag Program\u003c/a> website or call them to find out where the truck is rolling to next. Lucchesi said the program needs more volunteers, especially to bring groceries to people who can’t physically make it to the truck when it stops in their area.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She doesn't drive and also uses the service. \"It will help our little economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11514968\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11514968\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Crates of fresh fruits and veggies line the inside of the grocery truck for seniors.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crates of fresh fruits and veggies line the inside of the grocery truck for seniors. \u003ccite>(Jenee Darden/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Health problems, high cost of living and lack of access to transportation make it difficult for seniors to get food. A long-term \u003ca href=\"https://www.aaa1b.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Health-Consequences-of-Food-Insecurity-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> from 2014 found there's a domino effect to senior hunger. Lack of nutrition -- whether from not eating or choosing cheaper and unhealthier food -- can increase a senior's risk of depression, heart failure, asthma and other ailments. 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Lucchesi said the program needs more volunteers, especially to bring groceries to people who can’t physically make it to the truck when it stops in their area.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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She says she likes people and describes herself as \"windbaggy.\" That's especially true if she's talking about playing music. She is a lifelong musician and retired music teacher. She plays harp and guitar, but her favorite instrument is the pipe organ. \"To be able to rock a building under your hands and your feet is exciting,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was Day's fifth day as a patient in the geriatric unit. She says multiple chronic conditions brought her here, but she didn't want to name them. Visible were a bulky back brace she wears for her osteoporosis, an IV drip and a heart monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When that heart monitor suddenly began beeping, Torrano was out of the room like a shot. 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As \u003ca href=\"http://www.geronet.ucla.edu/research/researchers/476\">Dr. David Reuben\u003c/a>, chief of geriatrics at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA explains: \"Just because you're willing to do something doesn't mean you know how to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers learn about medical confidentiality, what to do in an emergency, and how to interact with patients, including patients with dementia. Reuben says they go through a \"vigorous training process and vetting process before we allow them to be with patients.\" There are nearly three dozen volunteers so far. The program started just a few months ago, and the hospital plans to expand it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loneliness is a legitimate medical issue. 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"content": "\u003cp>Janet Prochazka was active and outspoken, living by herself and working as a special education tutor. Then, in March, a bad fall landed her in the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The older you are, the worse the hospital is for you.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Doctors cared for her wounds and treated her pneumonia. But Prochazka, 75, didn’t sleep or eat well at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. She became confused and agitated and ultimately contracted a serious stomach infection. After more than three weeks in the hospital and three more in a rehabilitation facility, she emerged far weaker than before, shaky and unable to think clearly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had to stop working and wasn’t able to drive for months. 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And they stay longer than younger patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many seniors are already suspended precariously between independent living and reliance on others. They are weakened by multiple chronic diseases and medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bad hospitalization can tip them over the edge, and they may never recover, said Melissa Mattison, chief of the hospital medicine unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is like putting Humpty Dumpty back together again,” said Mattison, who wrote a 2013 report detailing the risks elderly patients face in the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the unique needs of older patients are not a priority for most hospitals, Covinsky said. Doctors and other hospital staff focus so intensely on treating injuries or acute illnesses — like pneumonia or an exacerbation of heart disease — that they can overlook nearly all other aspects of caring for the patients, he noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, hospitals face few consequences if elderly patients become more impaired or less functional during their stays. The federal government penalizes hospitals when patients fall, get preventable infections or return to the hospital within 30 days of their discharge. But hospitals aren’t held accountable if patients lose their memories or their ability to walk. As a result, most don’t measure those things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t measure it, you can’t fix it,” Covinsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Improving care for older patients requires an investment that hospital administrators are not always willing to make, experts said. Some argue, however, that the investment pays off — not just for older people but for hospitals themselves as well as for a country intent on controlling health care spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though research on the financial impact of problematic hospital care for the elderly has been limited, a 2010 report by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General found that more than a quarter of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries had suffered an “adverse event,” or harm as a result of medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those events, such as bed sores or oxygen deficiency, cost Medicare about $4.4 billion annually, according to the report. Physicians who reviewed the incidents determined that 44 percent could have been prevented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to outright mistakes, poor or inadequate treatment in hospitals leads to needless medical spending on extended hospital visits, readmissions, in-home caregivers and nursing home care. 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