Joann Sullivan on August 27th, 2010

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 [...]

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Joann Sullivan on June 21st, 2010

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 [...]

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Joann Sullivan on November 21st, 2009

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 [...]

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Joann Sullivan on October 11th, 2009

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 [...]

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Joann Sullivan on September 18th, 2009

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 [...]

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Joann Sullivan on September 2nd, 2009

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 [...]

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Joann Sullivan on August 8th, 2009

Following is an article by Ashby Village Board Members, Shirley Haberfeld and Pat Sussman.  It is scheduled for publication in Persimmon, an on-line literary magazine for women.
Do you remember that first phone call from your eldest sister?  “What are we going to do about Mom - she doesn’t want any help and she [...]

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Joann Sullivan on May 4th, 2009

One of the reasons that we have such good resources for seniors in the East Bay is the School of Social Work Resource Center on Aging at UC Berkeley.    They have always been on the forefront of addressing senior issues and have trained many geriatric social workers in the area.   Diane Driver’s monthly e-newsletter, [...]

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Joann Sullivan on April 25th, 2009

Ashby Village:
Ashby Village has scheduled two more house parties.  The first will be on May 17th at 2717 Hillegass and the second on May 24th at 1711 9th Street.  Both locations are in Berkeley and both will start at 2:00 pm.  People should RSVP to Shirley Haberfeld at shaberfeld@ashbyvillage.com if they want to attend.  [...]

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Joann Sullivan on April 8th, 2009

About a year ago my friend Judy Boe, also a Seniors Real Estate Specialist at Red Oak Realty here in Berkeley, and I read about a program in Boston that helped seniors stay in their own homes as they grew older.  The program  is called Beacon Hill Village and had been established by people [...]

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