Each August the Realtor’s Resource for Seniors committee is responsible for the program at the monthly luncheon meeting of the Berkeley Association of Realtors. The Realtor’s Resource for Seniors is the committee that Judy Boe and I started about two years ago to educate ourselves and other realtors about the special needs of senior [...]
It is official. Today (July 12, 2010) Ashby Village is open for business! After years of hard work, it is actually a realty. Judy Boe and I have only been working for about two years, but others, notably Shirley Haberfeld, Pat Sussman and Jane Selby started years earlier. The launching of Ashby Village represents [...]
I have been working very hard for the past several months getting ready for the launching of Ashby Village. It will be open for business in less than a month although we will not have the official opening celebration until the fall. My job, along with Judy Boe and Taree Klausner, is to [...]
Continue reading about How Senior Move Managers Help Seniors Move
A few weeks ago, the Marketing Department at St. Paul’s Towers, a CCRC/Life Care facility in Oakland, asked me to speak to a group of potential residents about what is really going on in the real estate market in the East Bay. Many of the people considering moving to St. Paul’s need to sell their [...]
Continue reading about What is Really Going on in the Housing Market in the East Bay
For the past several months, I have been writing about resources for seniors and their families in the East Bay. Most of the articles have focused on programs that help seniors age in place. Almost all seniors want to remain in their own homes, but some are not able to for a variety of reasons. [...]
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I had been thinking about the next blog article that I want to write when I came across the article below in this month’s issue of The Gilbert Guide by Dennis Fortier. I feel like I know a lot about Alzheimer’s , but as Dennis states, there are things that all of us can [...]
Continue reading about November–National Alzheimers Awareness Month
A few weeks ago, my friends Judy Boe and Shirley Haberfeld and I had lunch with Jill Gilbert. We wanted to tell Jill all about Ashby Village and she wanted to tell us about Gilbert Guide’s new endeavor-The Daily Wrinkle. In addition to the Monthly Gilbert Guide and Weekly Insider e-newsletters, there is now [...]
The second Ashby Village Community Meeting will be held next Thursday, September 24 at 7:00 p.m. at Lifelong Medical Care, 2031 6th Street in Berkeley. Lifelong is one block south of University Avenue and the entrance is on Addison Street. This is a very good opportunity to find out about this valuable program which will [...]
Continue reading about Don’t Forget–Second Ashby Village Community Meeting!
A few weeks ago, my friend Peggy and I were on our afternoon walk and she was bemoaning the fact that she would be 65 in a few weeks. She had received some information from Social Security and was trying to figure out what she was going to do about Medicare and all of [...]
Continue reading about I have never heard of HICAP. What is it?
Several weeks ago I wrote about elderblogging and introduced some of my favorites-Ronni Bennett’s Time Goes By, Gorgeous Grey and others. In today’s edition of Diane Driver’s monthly newsletter Resources in Aging from the University of California at Berkeley, she lists two new blogs for seniors and their families.
The first is by [...]
