Kit Bond, the retiring US Senator from Missouri, announced last week that he won’t seek re-election and that his office announced that Missouri will receive $15,876,900 as part of Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities Program and Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program. As [...]
In one of the final acts of the Bush administration, thousands of very low-income senior citizens will be able to find affordable housing thanks to more than $525 million in grants announced by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last week. The funding will provide non-profit developers interest-free capital advances to produce accessible [...]
Last week the Denver Post ran an article on a senior housing community that specifically caters to retired teachers and administrators in Denver’s public schools. While anyone over 55 can live there, preference is given to those who worked previously for Denver’s Public Schools. The Denver Educational Senior Citizens, Inc. (DESCI building) opened in 1961 [...]
How would you like the title of “First Granny”? The Chicago Tribune ran an article recently that talked about how Marian Robinson, 71, the mother of Michelle Obama and a retired secretary from the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, would be moving into the White House to help the Obama’s children settle into a routine. [...]
The Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF), the entertainment industry’s health and social services charity, announced a change of resources under which the group’s hospital and long-term care facility will be phased out in favor of community-based programs that focus on allowing seniors to age in place in their homes for as long as possible. [...]
Last week, the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) had its inaugural Silvers Summit at the show and displayed some cutting edge technology and products that focus on the growing senior demographic. Participants included hospitals, nonprofit groups, retailers, insurers and dozens of entrepreneurs, many of whom got involved after personally experiencing what it is like to care [...]
Despite the credit crisis and tightening credit requirements in the mortgage market, data released in December by the Department of Housing and Urban Development shows that on a calendar year basis, the number of federally insured Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) closed in 2008 grew 6.4% to 115,176 loans. A more detailed analysis of HUD [...]
Kay J. Miller, M.S.W. of Life Care Retirement Communities (LCRC) in Des Moines, IA, recently returned from Kyoto, Japan where she presented the Green House® Project to a global audience. This innovative long-term care potion emphasizes cultural change for residents and staff. Green Houses are part of a broadening movement to humanize care for elderly [...]
The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging’s (AAHSA) President and CEO Larry Minnix applauded the introduction of S. 118, the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Act of 2009. The proposed legislation would strengthen the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Section 202 Supporting Housing for the Elderly Program [...]
