Photo: The Rubin AL Building at Handmaker in Tucson Carmen Duarte for Arizona Daily Star Handmaker, a senior community that offers independent and assisted living and skilled nursing, opened nearly 60 years ago thanks to a husband’s promise to his dying wife. Isador “Murf” Handmaker was one of the founders of the skilled nursing facility,…
Photo: Rabbi Levi Levertov and volunteers with the “Smile on Seniors” program in the Phoenix area have helped hundreds of seniors to obtain coronavirus vaccinations, enabling many to spend Passover with their families. Vaccination efforts for Jewish seniors worldwide have taken on a new sense of urgency as Passover approaches. After a year of quarantines…
Handmaker, Chabad and Mobile Meals of Southern Arizona have entered into a partnership to further the work of Handmaker and Chabad of Tucson to help tackle the issue of food insecurity in the community. A Glatt Kosher Meal option will now be offered to those meals already being provided by Mobile Meals of Southern Arizona….
Through the Wise Aging program, participants explore the joys, possibilities and challenges of growing older in small classes that last between six to nine weeks. These classes cover a broad spectrum of aging issues, such as difficulty losing a spouse, first-time grandparenting, dealing with aging parents, and redefining life after a lifetime of working. Wise…
The Valley of the Sun YMCA began providing seniors free rides to their COVID-19 vaccine appointments on Feb. 16. Along with the expansion of the YMCA’s volunteer-led outreach program based in Ahwatukee that provides rides for seniors, the organization has also partnered with Uber for additional options. The YMCA and Uber coordinated with the Arizona…
A new discovery by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and its affiliated Soroka University Medical Center shows that medical cannabis may reduce blood pressure in older adults. The study, published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine, is the first of its kind to focus on the effect of cannabis on blood…
Ballet Theatre of Phoenix is offering free Zoom “sit or stand” ballet classes to all senior citizens in the community. Held online every Friday from 12:00-12:45 pm, the classes are specially designed for older adults to develop flexibility, balance and strength through movement. Created in partnership with Jewish Family & Children’s Service as a program…
Mythology is full of many fascinating characters but none more idyllic and romantic than that rascally scamp Cupid. When the arrow hits you from this symbol of desire, love, attraction and affection, you immediately fall in love. Many couples are lucky to be struck by Cupid’s arrow once, but it is the truly lucky ones…
By Martina Merashi What is an Ethical Will? In Jewish tradition, ethical wills included end-of-life planning items like burial preferences, last wishes, debts or obligations to be paid, and instructions for family members on carrying out religious traditions. For centuries, these tzava’ot documents have been the way Jewish seniors pass on their wisdom to loved…
Photo: RetiSpec COO Roy Kirshon, left, and CEO Eliav Shaked. (Robert Sarner/ Times of Israel) By Robert Sarner Israeli expatriate biomedical engineers Eliav Shaked and Roy Kirshon may be far from old age but one of its dreaded curses – Alzheimer’s disease (AD) – figures prominently in their lives. As business partners in an artificial…
