| New assisted living facility to open soon
PLEASANTON - When the doors open at Parkview Assisted Living this month, 10 years of planning and development to bring the 105-unit senior housing complex to Pleasanton will come to a close. The 60,000-square-foot complex is a joint venture of the city, the nonprofit group BRIDGE Housing Corporation and assisted living services provider Eskaton. In addition to providing assisted living and memory care for Tri-Valley residents, the $25 million facility includes 31 units set aside for low-income seniors -- a commodity in short supply. "There are very few affordable assisted living facilities (in the Tri-Valley)," Pleasanton housing specialist Scott Erickson said. "None reach the depth of affordability that ours does." Anne Burns Johnson, president of Sacramento-based Aging Services of California, said being able to offer 30 percent of units as affordable housing in a project like this is a higher-than-usual share.
SAVE THE DATE: Caregivers invited to free seminar
A free evening seminar for family caregivers, titled "Medicaid Home & Assisted Living Services: Putting Together the Pieces of the Puzzle," will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Feb. 5, at the Law Offices of Jerold Rothkoff, 1010 Kings Highway South, Building 2, Suite B, Cherry Hill. The event is part of a series of free monthly seminars called "Focus on the Caregiver." Light refreshments will be served. Reservations are requested by calling (877) 475-1101 or (856) 616-2923. send a letter to the editor. .
Firm hopes to make city fit needs of older set
Blueroof Technologies, a McKeesport nonprofit, presented city officials this week with a plan to develop an "independence zone" that they said would see McKeesport grow as a leading independent living community for senior citizens in the state. The organization built a model home in McKeesport last year and displayed how a two-story, wood-frame house could be converted into a hi-tech home designed to enhance independent living for the disabled and elderly. Now it is proposing to build at least 20 such homes in McKeesport in the next few years. The project will be the foundation of a research and development campus known as the Blueroof Smart Cottage Research and Development Center, Blueroof Executive Director John Bertoty said. "We already have a model house in the zone," Mr.
A time of need
CARBONDALE - Thankful to escape safely from her burning mobile home with her five children Tuesday, the only items Tasha Oliver saved besides the clothes on their backs and one television is a jar of charred baby formula and a portrait taken of her father with four of her kids."I'm lost," Oliver said. "I feel like I've done and lost it."
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