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Fall 2011

The Newsletter of The Hebrew Home at Riverdale

94th Anniversary Dinner

On Sunday, November 6, 2011, the Hebrew Home hosted its 94th Anniversary Dinner honoring David Boies, Chairman of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP. Held at the elegant Waldorf=Astoria, guests enjoyed cocktails, a delicious dinner and danced to the music of Valerie Romanoff and the Starlight Orchestra. Dinner Chairman and Chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr & Company, Maurice R. Greenberg, was pleased to inform everyone that this years Dinner was a huge success!

Save The Date

Eight nights of Chanukah beginning Tuesday, December 20th at 4:30 p.m. Airing on Channel 10 throughout the Home.

From Left to Right Daniel Reingold, President & CEO David Boies, Honoree

Photo credit: Rob Rich

Maurice R. Greenberg, Dinner Chairman Jeffrey S. Maurer, Chairman, The Hebrew Home at Riverdale

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Congratulations to our honoree, David Boies and Dinner Chairmen, Maurice R. Greenberg and Sanford I. Weill for their dedication and ongoing commitment to the Home.

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The Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf=Astoria

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Grandparents Day 2011

On Sunday, September 11, 2011 the Home held its 49th Annual Grandparents Day. Over 1,800 family and friends turned out to honor and celebrate the Homes grandparents, including Congressman Eliot Engel, Senator Jeffrey Klein and Standing red shirt, HHAR Board Councilman Oliver Koppell. of Director, Joseph Wygoda and The outdoor celebration included a barbecue RiverWalk tenant Jack Charnet luncheon, games, rides, and live music by The TomCats Jazz Aces Swing Band featuring String of Pearls and David Belt. The afternoon also included a silent auction in which the Homes Residents donated their artwork. Proceeds from the Grandparents Day silent auction will benefit the resident art program. As a special treat Cub Scout Pack 115 from Bronxville and Brownie Troop 1905 from Rye Brook participated in the celebration. The boys and girls lead the Pledge of Allegiance and National Anthem to honor the memory of those lost on the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

Former Governor David Paterson Visits the Home

Former Governor David Paterson visited the Hebrew Home to speak with staff and youth from the Generation to Generation and Summer Youth Employment programs, about his experiences prior to and during his role as Governor of New York State. One of the many messages he conveyed to our younger generation is that achieving the impossible is attainable.

Greenberg-Starr Memory Center Offers Wide-Ranging Fitness Program

It is the Greenberg-Starr Memory Centers mission to bring healthy lifestyle possibilities to all in residence. Our latest phase of program development is the introduction of fitness programming to the Resident Activity Calendar. With the invaluable support and skill of the Nursing, Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Activities Departments, Memory Center residents enjoy a daily complement of physical activity including fitness walks, strength training, low impact exercise, bicycling, Yoga, and massage therapy. Exercise is a vital component of physical and brain health whether young or older, whether in the presence or absence of Alzheimers disease. Fitness walking tours are led by a Certified Nurses Aide, who joins residents in viewing art work and testing their wit at wall-mounted activity boards to build upon brain ability and motor skills. During strength training sessions, residents fortify and re-connect with their physical ability through performing a range of low impact exercises. Of late, Massage Therapy has joined the fitness roster, with a licensed Massage Therapist bringing relaxation and healing to residents challenged by age and Alzheimers. Through the powers of gentle touch, residents visibly recognize and respond to healing hands and find renewed harmony within themselves.

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Currently on Exhibit at the Derfner Judaica + Art Collection

On Sunday, October 30th more than 80 people, including former members of Congregation Ohav Sholaum in Inwood, celebrated the opening of the exhibition, Jane Trigre: Women of the Balcony. The exhibition will be on view through February 5, 2012 and may be visited during Museum hours of Sunday through Thursday, 10:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m. On October 11th artist, Leonard Ursachi, met with residents and guests at the opening reception of an exhibition of drawings and small-scale sculptures from his Bunkers series. Located in the lobby galley of the Elma and Milton A. Gilbert Pavilion, Bunkers will be on view through January 1, 2012 and may be visited daily 10:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m.

Hurricane Irene
The Hebrew Home staff kept a watchful eye on the path of Hurricane Irene in late August. Weather disturbances and the accompanying challenges they create are the subject of extensive planning and training that staff undergo on a regular basis. The Home offered a safe haven to its colleagues at the Menorah Nursing Home in Coney Island where 20 residents and staff spent three days at the Home.

Menorah NH staff pose for a picture with the HHAR clinical leadership as the buses were about to leave to take them home.

Sculpture Hit by Tornado Reinstalled

Menashe Kadishmans Sacrifice of Isaac was reinstalled this summer after it was severely damaged in the devastating tornado in July 2010. The central component of the three-part sculpture, a two-ton steel rams head was damaged when a tree toppled on it, nearly bending it in half. The work is part of a collection of more than three-dozen outdoor sculptures on the Homes 19-acre campus. The collection is open to the public daily, free of charge, from 10:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m. For further information, please call the curators office 718 581-1330.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

It looks as if Food Services will be enhancing their culinary adventures using the herbs cultivated in this years Staff Garden thanks to JoAnn Stern, Carlos Luna and participating staff.

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Special Thanks, Awards & Honors

M On May 12th, Dr. Zachary Palace, Medical Director, presented a scientific abstract entitled Development of an Outpatient Transfusion Protocol to Reduce Inpatient Hospitalizations of Nursing Home Residents at the annual meeting of the American Geriatrics Society, in Washington DC. This quality improvement project, initiated by Dr. Palace in 2009, has demonstrated a 40% reduction in hospitalizations of residents requiring blood transfusion. M The Weinberg Center is very proud of its own Deirdre Lok, Counsel, for her 2011 award from RAIN Multi-Services for Seniors. Deirdre received the Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Community Service to the survivors of elder abuse. M The Weinberg Center is also pleased to welcome Linda Laveen, the new Elder Abuse Specialist. M In August the Home made a donation of used furniture to Ghana, Africa. The furniture included used beds, mattresses, night tables and chairs. Thank you to Kwame Boateng in the housekeeping department for making the suggestion. M Over the summer residents and community members were treated to an informative talk by award-winning journalist and author, Jane Gross on her new book, A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parentsand Ourselves.

Officers
Jeffrey S. Maurer, Chairman Kenneth S. Lazar, Vice Chairman Joseph Wygoda, Treasurer I. Roy Cohen, Secretary Daniel A. Reingold, President & CEO

Directors
Shelley Fehrenbach Michael Fuchs Andrew L. Gaines Mel Harris Michael D. Hess Martin Hoffman Steven M. Jacobson Stanley M. Katz Todd Kerwin, M.D. Michael J. Klosk Isadore Kreel, M.D. Richard S. Lane Sonny Loeffler Michael Palin Seymour D. Reich Burton P. Resnick Thomas S. Rogers Joshua Sapan James A. Shifren Jerome Weinrib

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Milton A. Gilbert, Chair Emeritus