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05-02-2010, 12:15 AM
Up to 75 senior centers on the chopping block
BY Kathleen Lucadamo (http://www.nydailynews.com/authors/Kathleen%20Lucadamo) and Leo Standora (http://www.nydailynews.com/authors/Leo%20Standora)
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Saturday, May 1st 2010, 4:00 AM
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The state budget crisis is forcing the city to slam the doors on as many as 75 of its 300 senior citizen centers, officials said Friday night.
Hardest hit by the belt-tightening will be Manhattan (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Manhattan), which will lose a dozen centers in the first round of closings, most of them in Harlem (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Harlem) and the lower East Side.
Officials said 50 centers will be notified by May 15 that they'll be shut by July 1. Another 25 centers also could get notices if Albany (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Albany) doesn't hammer out a budget soon and funnel some cash to the city.
The closings will affect some 1,600 seniors, officials said.
City Councilwoman Jessica Lappin (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Jessica+Lappin), who chairs the Aging Committee (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Aging+Committee), vowed to keep pressuring Albany leaders to restore need funds and avert a "drastic change."
"These senior centers are part of the fabric of our neighborhoods. For the people that use them, it's more than a hot meal," said Lappin (D-Manhattan).
Sources said 32 centers that serve fewer than 30 meals a day are on the chopping block. The citywide average is 90.
Thirteen of those 32 are open only part-time. Seven other part-time centers that serve more than 30 meals will also be closed, along with another 11 that have substandard facilities or poor management.
To ease some of the pain, the city will provide shuttle service to transport people affected by closures to other senior centers.
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I never thought I would live to see 30 and definitely not 40. Here I am today 56, Disabled and at times life can be a test. Here in the UK Old peoples homes have been cut, raped and bastardised. 3 old people, late 90s were moved from there rest homes, were they had been for years, only moved 5,6 or 10 miles. All in different parts of England and Wales.
They died within a few days. It was put down to re costing, and the directors picked nice little bonuses. Old people get into a routine and lets be fare it is a Farly steady one. I believe dozens die each year be cuts and reshuffling of patients. Not this week because well have a General election in a few days.When we are being promised the world, but it is a world of shit.
We have greedy, disingenuous politicians. Scotland however are a model to the world for respecting there old and disabled people. Hand on heart, good on you Scots, respect due.
England as a nation, is dangerous if we all pull together, so Whitehall civil servants and government, keep us divided and constantly bitching at this and that. United we could be a proud happy nation.
Yes I claim the old folk would be treated better, they, and I, would get every Englishman's right. Respect, truth and be able to walk the streets safe at night.
.Senior citizens are just young people who have grown old, Some are cantankerous, mean or warm and friendly. I leave you with this thought.
Old people have made the same mistakes as you and are a wealth of knowledge and an asset. If you are grown up enough,and have learned to listen, they give sound advice too.
BY Kathleen Lucadamo (http://www.nydailynews.com/authors/Kathleen%20Lucadamo) and Leo Standora (http://www.nydailynews.com/authors/Leo%20Standora)
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Saturday, May 1st 2010, 4:00 AM
<LI class="inform-logo-related last">
The state budget crisis is forcing the city to slam the doors on as many as 75 of its 300 senior citizen centers, officials said Friday night.
Hardest hit by the belt-tightening will be Manhattan (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Manhattan), which will lose a dozen centers in the first round of closings, most of them in Harlem (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Harlem) and the lower East Side.
Officials said 50 centers will be notified by May 15 that they'll be shut by July 1. Another 25 centers also could get notices if Albany (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Albany) doesn't hammer out a budget soon and funnel some cash to the city.
The closings will affect some 1,600 seniors, officials said.
City Councilwoman Jessica Lappin (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Jessica+Lappin), who chairs the Aging Committee (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Aging+Committee), vowed to keep pressuring Albany leaders to restore need funds and avert a "drastic change."
"These senior centers are part of the fabric of our neighborhoods. For the people that use them, it's more than a hot meal," said Lappin (D-Manhattan).
Sources said 32 centers that serve fewer than 30 meals a day are on the chopping block. The citywide average is 90.
Thirteen of those 32 are open only part-time. Seven other part-time centers that serve more than 30 meals will also be closed, along with another 11 that have substandard facilities or poor management.
To ease some of the pain, the city will provide shuttle service to transport people affected by closures to other senior centers.
lstandora@nydailynews.com (lstandora@nydailynews.com)
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/01/2010-05-01_up_to_75_senior_centers_on_the_chopping_block.h tml#ixzz0mjy6cxJY (http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/01/2010-05-01_up_to_75_senior_centers_on_the_chopping_block.h tml#ixzz0mjy6cxJY)
I never thought I would live to see 30 and definitely not 40. Here I am today 56, Disabled and at times life can be a test. Here in the UK Old peoples homes have been cut, raped and bastardised. 3 old people, late 90s were moved from there rest homes, were they had been for years, only moved 5,6 or 10 miles. All in different parts of England and Wales.
They died within a few days. It was put down to re costing, and the directors picked nice little bonuses. Old people get into a routine and lets be fare it is a Farly steady one. I believe dozens die each year be cuts and reshuffling of patients. Not this week because well have a General election in a few days.When we are being promised the world, but it is a world of shit.
We have greedy, disingenuous politicians. Scotland however are a model to the world for respecting there old and disabled people. Hand on heart, good on you Scots, respect due.
England as a nation, is dangerous if we all pull together, so Whitehall civil servants and government, keep us divided and constantly bitching at this and that. United we could be a proud happy nation.
Yes I claim the old folk would be treated better, they, and I, would get every Englishman's right. Respect, truth and be able to walk the streets safe at night.
.Senior citizens are just young people who have grown old, Some are cantankerous, mean or warm and friendly. I leave you with this thought.
Old people have made the same mistakes as you and are a wealth of knowledge and an asset. If you are grown up enough,and have learned to listen, they give sound advice too.