A 78-year-old man moved into an assisted living facility after signing a contract covering supervision and care. He fell several times over three years and complained that on the last occasion, it was an hour before staff responded his call for help. Alarmed by the delay, he and his daughter, who helped pay for his ...
Gretchen Lee passed away Nov. 11 in the hospice unit at Victorian Manor, an assisted living facility. At 98, she was one of the younger residents of the three-story, 124-unit building in in San Francisco’s Alamo Square. Lee first moved into assisted living four years ago when several falls and early signs of dementia convinced ...
Two years ago, Greg Myers and his wife, Lonnie Lebin, were leading a comfortable life in four-story Sunnyside District home. Myers, a former robotics engineer, was a runner, hiker, and enjoyed playing the piano. Lebin, a former kindergarten teacher, had begun taking classes in ceramics, exercised at the Stonestown YMCA and was a longtime performer ...
Jody Reiss was one of the youngest people to move into The Sequoias, one of roughly 50 assisted living facilities in San Francisco. She was 68 in a place where the average resident is much older and unable to live at home any longer due to health problems. That wasn’t what budged Reiss, an active ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: See full profiles of the seniors interviewed by clicking links within the story. A panoply of health issues, including slow-moving Parkinson’s, and kidney disease, prompted Jody Reiss, a retired therapist and AIDS educator, to move into an assisted living facility – at the relatively young age of 68. Most residents are 75 or ...
Walk through the doors of Gus’ Discount Fishing Tackle, and you’ll likely be greeted before you even reach the counter. That’s how Stephanie Ernst-Scott learned to do business from her father, Gus Ernst, who opened the Outer Richmond shop more than 60 years ago. “You say hello to somebody when they cross your threshold,” said ...
