Tables Reserved for the Healthiest - NYT

[Bozita]

I cannot seem to find a forum for seniors in DU3. My intent was to place this in such a spot. And that's why this post is here in GD.




February 9, 2012, 3:04 PM
Tables Reserved for the Healthiest
By PAULA SPAN


Residents at Harbor’s Edge, an upscale retirement community in downtown Norfolk, Va., appreciate their gracious dining room, called the River Terrace. They like the country club cuisine, the socializing, the view of ships passing on the Elizabeth River.

Until recently, William Hodges had dinner there every evening with his wife, Betty. Dorothy and Thomas Evans hosted out-of-town guests and celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas there with their son. Lindsay Bilisoly regularly shared meals there with his parents, Frank and Indie.

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But last spring, managers declared the River Terrace and two other dining facilities at the community off limits to anyone but independent living residents. Assisted living residents were told to use their own small dining room; nursing residents were restricted to theirs.

Family members were instructed to join them there. But longtime friends — and several married couples — who lived in separate parts of the facility could no longer share meals in the main dining room. Those in assisted living or nursing care also were also barred from community events like the Fourth of July celebration.

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http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/tables-reserved-for-the-healthiest/

[marybourg]

1. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1183

[dsc]

4. put the link in the body of your text

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1183

[marybourg]

2. I don't know why that didn't form a

link. Maybe someone else could send one, but there is a Senior forum and that's the URL

[RC]

3. The link needs to be in the Message area.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1183

[Bozita]

5. Thanks to all posters. I thought the people forum was kinda like a "People Magazine" thing

Too careless on my part. Sorry.

Gonna xpost it there now.

Thanks again.

[grasswire]

6. well that explains something

I've noticed that the facebook page for the retirement center where my two aunties live only posts pictures of the very active residents. It must be a marketing thing. They need to attract aging boomers, and don't want to be seen as having too many less active or ill in residence.

One funny thing, though. In the lobby of the place are game tables where good-looking elders are constantly involved in very sociable games. It looks like good fun. But one of my aunties said that most of the people playing the card games have some memory loss, and so it's extremely difficult to join in the games. Nobody's really playing by the rules. That's kind of sweet.