Posts Tagged ‘seniors’
As more Bay Area seniors face hunger, California’s Master Plan for Aging could help
Although food insecurity—the formal term for being unable to reliably access and afford nutritious food—is on the decline in California, it’s on the rise for senior citizens.
Read MoreNever mind Reefer Madness, seniors are the next big cannabis consumers
It’s a quiet Monday afternoon at Magnolia Oakland, a cannabis dispensary on the industrial end of Adeline Street. From the outside, the blocky, concrete building looks like the kind of place you might go to get a package shipped or a document notarized. Inside, as a guy working security chats with a front desk employee…
Read MoreCity officials gather community input on issues facing seniors in Oakland
As Oakland takes steps toward becoming an “age-friendly city,” District 3 residents shared how issues like high housing costs and access to transportation affect local seniors.
Read MoreSeniors find a second home at Chinatown Recreation Center
For the elderly, staying active can be difficult. But that’s not the case at the Lincoln Square Recreation Center in Oakland’s Chinatown.
Read MoreOakland senior residents open homes to seniors evacuated from Sonoma wildfires
Senior residents evacuated from the wildfires in Sonoma County stayed with seniors at St. Paul’s Towers in Oakland.
Read MoreMobile Medicare Clinic to hold health fair at Allen Temple Baptist Church
The Allen Temple Baptist Church will partner with the University of the Pacific this Saturday to hold a health fair to help seniors understand their medications.
Read MoreStudent pharmacists help seniors manage healthcare
The Allen Temple Baptist Church’s large auditorium was packed with community residents young and old, as student pharmacists from the University of the Pacific helped seniors grapple with updates to their Medicare plans and manage their medications.
Read MoreIn West Oakland, St. Mary’s Center reaches out to seniors hit by foreclosures, financial hardships
St. Mary’s Center in West Oakland helps some of the 71,000 seniors in Alameda County who do not have enough money to meet their basic needs; that is half of the people in Alameda County who are 65 and over. But the center is just one node in the complex and incomplete web of aid for seniors who do not have enough money to live on. “Forget the issue of any kind of dementia, long-term chronic mental health issues, substance abuse issues—just be homeless and experience the trauma of that and then figure this out,” said Carol Johnson, the director of St. Mary’s.
Read MoreSeniors voice budget concerns to Mayor Quan
More than 300 people convened at the North Oakland Senior Center on Saturday morning to share their concerns – most of them budget-related – with Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and Councilmember Jane Brunner.
Read MoreLibraries, seniors, feel the bite of recession
Several fat books stacked on Deborah Cunningham’s lap spilled over the edges of her wheelchair. As an aide wheeled her away, the dark-haired, elderly woman, a retired English professor in her mid-eighties, grasped them tightly. She is one of ten or eleven repeat customers at Mercy Retirement and Care Center that look forward to the…
Read MoreSeniors plead with Oakland City Council: No more cuts, not for us
By ALEXIA UNDERWOOD
Read MoreNeighbors band against multiplying group homes
Golden Gate residents complain the proliferation of group care facilities hurts the neighborhood–and that nobody would try this in, say, Rockridge. Click here for the story.
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