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In the News 2010

6/23/2010
(Medical News) Going barefoot in home may contribute to falls among elderly: Study

6/21/2010
(Dedham Transcript) Governor Deval Patrick helps celebrate NewBridge on the Charles in Dedham (video)

6/3/2010
(McKnights) Study uncovers link between elderly falls, and high blood pressure, altered blood flow in brain

5/17/2010
(The Boston Globe) Higher protein intake linked to fewer hip fractures

5/17/2010
(Business Week) Elderly Falls Linked to Altered Blood Flow in Brain

5/7/2010
(Medical News Today) Hebrew SeniorLife Institute For Aging Research Recommends More Protein In Diet To Prevent Fractures

4/14/2010
(Jewish Daily Forward) Germans, Survivors Confront Shoah Together

4/11/2010
(Boston Globe) Satter House gets $4m to update

4/7/2010
(HUD.gov) HUD announces Recovery Act Green Retrofit Grant for senior housing in Revere, MA

3/26/2010
(Boston Globe) Seders to serve hundreds at NewBridge on the Charles

3/17/2010
(Hospital News) Dr Schreiber receives director of the year award

3/10/2010
(Flickr: Office of Deval Patrick) Gov. Patrick visits Jack Satter House

3/8/2010
(US News & World Report) Blacks, Hispanics With Heart Failure Less Likely to Use Hospice

2/4/2010
(Dedham Transcript) Dedham artist teaches course at NewBridge on the Charles

In the News 2009

12/31/2009
(Dedham Transcript) 2009 Year in Review: NewBridge on the Charles Opens

12/31/09
(Boston Globe) Couple donates $1m for nursing program

12/29/09
(Roslindale Transcript) Roslindale Hebrew Rehab donates 120 beds to Haitian Hospital

12/17/2009
(The Dedham Transcript) Rashi School students visit seniors at NewBridge on the Charles.

11/30/2009
(Boston Magazine) Top Doctors 2009: Making the rounds- Dr. Lewis Lipsitz, Geriatrics

11/25/2009
(Boston Globe) Caring for the elderly

11/24/2009
(JAMA) Chronic bone and joint pain increases risk of falls in older adults

11/3/2009
(Mass.gov) Get V'ed Department of Public Health

10/27/2009
(Patriot Ledger) 86-year-old fights off cancer to direct musical at Orchard Cove.
Seniors do enjoy the music of featured composer Harry Warren. But it's really 86-year-old Jack Morris they're wild about.

10/16/2009
Institute for Aging Research Study Describes Clinical Course of Advanced Dementia

(New York Times) Treating Dementia, but Overlooking Its Physical Toll
(CBS) Advanced Dementia: Managing the Burden
(Time.com) Redining Dementia as a Terminal Illness
(Boston Globe) Dementia is a Terminal Illness, Boston Study Says
(Reuters) Advanced Dementia Viewed as a Terminal Illness
(Associated Press) Studies: Nursing Home Elderly
(Scientific American) Should advanced dementia be considered a terminal illness?
(WebMD) Late-Dementia Suffering Often Unnecessary
(UPI) Dementia is a Terminal Illness
(Harvard Crimson) Study Pushes Improved End of Life Care for Dementia

9/30/2009
Institute for Aging Research Study Links High Heels and Foot Pain

(New York Times) Study Finds Women Wear Shoes That Cause Pain
(ABC News) Shoe Style Linked to Foot Pain
(CBS News) Study: Poor Shoes May Haunt Your Later
(CNN Video) High Heels and Foot Pain
(UPI) Women's shoes linked to pain, not men's
(CBS Canada) Fashion trumps health in footwear, again

9/16/2009
(WGBH) Is the recession over?, Watch WGBH Video featuring Len Fishman, CEO of Hebrew SeniorLife.

9/13/2009
(Boston Globe) Hiring boom isn't likely, but things are picking up, Hebrew SeniorLife, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, recently said it plans to hire 250 workers.

8/20/2009
(Boston Globe) Hebrew SeniorLife names first president, Louis Jay Woolf becoming a first president.

7/14/2009
(MHA) Another Successful Nursing Program.
Massachusetts hospitals are leading the effort in many ways to promote the nursing profession and build the supply.

6/13/2009
(NECN) Hebrew SeniorLife opens NewBridge on the Charles, NECN video footage

6/12/2009
(Daily News Transcript) RiverSide Sanctuary.
On Thursday, the 162-acre NewBridge on the Charles site was abuzz with activity, as heavy construction machinery drove to and fro, workers rolled in supplies on dollies, and employees learned how to take orders at a kosher deli named Nosh.

6/4/2009
(Boston Globe) Doctors warn on patients' falls.
Patient falls and the injuries they cause are considered such a crisis that in October, the federal government stopped paying hospitals for extra care if a fall is deemed preventable. Now, a Boston doctor is warning the pressure to keep patients from falling may lead to greater harm through the use of restraints, reversing a trend of greater mobility among hospitalized patients.

1/30/2009
(Commonwealth of Massachusetts) Len Fishman named to Patrick Administration's Long-Term Care Financing Advisory Committee to advance Community First Agenda.. Read more.

1/4/2009
(Boston Globe) German youth, Jewish elders bridge history's gulf.
In the hallways of the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Roslindale, Gerrit Wiezoreck stands out. With strong features atop a thin, 6-foot-5 frame, Wiezoreck has to stoop over to push wheelchairs, and occasionally kneels down to talk to someone at eye level.

1/3/2009
(Boston Globe) Bracing for the Age Wave.
During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama liked to say that he wanted to get beyond the grudge battles of baby boomers. But baby boomers will claim a major part of his agenda when the leading edge of that group begins turning 65 just two years into his term.

In the News 2008

12/18/2008
(The Jewish Daily) Failed Plot To Kill Hitler Leads to Feature Film - and a Rabbi in Boston.
Los Angeles - "Valkyrie," the new film starring Tom Cruise as real-life German army officer Claus von Stauffenberg, culminates with a phalanx of German soldiers storming the Berlin military headquarters where Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators holed up after they believed they had killed Hitler.

12/4/2008
(WCVB) Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center partners with Hebrew SeniorLife to sponsor senior health feature on WCVB's web site, thebostonchannel.com

11/2/2008
(Boston Globe) Casting their ballots with demoncratic zeal, Tsiliya Braz spent half an hour picking out a voting day outfit. She applied peach-colored lipstick and watched the news.Then, the 107-year-old Russian immigrant went downstairs to the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center's mock voting "booths," where she joined a sea of residents in wheelchairs, all waiting to fill out their absentee ballots for the general election.

8/6/2008
(CNN Video) Interview with Lewis Lipsitz Steadying Elderly on thier Feet, "iShoe" Helps with Balance.

4/15/2008
(The Wall Street Journal) Geriatric Care Is Facing Crisis.
Health-care institutions must rapidly increase training in geriatric care to ward off an "impending crisis" as 78 million baby boomers head toward old age, according to a report by the federal Institute of Medicine.

4/9/2008
HSL Researchers Find Disparities in Depression Among Older Hispanics in U.S.
Older Puerto Ricans have higher rates of depression than other Hispanics living in the United States, according to a new study by researchers at Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research (IFAR)

3/27/2008
(Daily News Transcript) Now faced with her biggest challenge ever
Natalie Wolf is charged with finding 1000 pieces of art to imbue NewBridge on the Charles with a unique sense of place.

3/21/2008
(Boston Business Journal) Senior nonprofit to use geothermal wells for energy to help modernize and "green" its business practices
The Boston-based nonprofit is investing $4 million to dig 408 geothermal wells that will be 500 feet deep each and will heat and cool its new facility, NewBridge on the Charles, a 1 million-square-foot housing and mixed-use campus on 162 acres in Dedham. It is the largest geothermal project under construction in New England at this time.

2/25/2008
Hebrew SeniorLife Researcher Finds Antibiotic Use High in Dementia Patients Near Death.
An article co-authored by Susan L. Mitchell, M.D., M.P.H., of Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research reports that nursing home residents with advanced dementia are frequently prescribed antibiotic medications, especially during the two weeks before death.

1/17/2008
Orchard Cove, HSL's continuing care retirement community in Canton, has received a five-year accreditation from CARF-Continuing Care Accreditation Commission (CARF-CCAC).
Accreditation is based on adherence to a rigorous set of standards in all areas of operations and finance.

1/16/2008
Harvard Medical Students Learn Physician Diagnosis with Hebrew Rehabilitation Center Residents
HMS Students Round at HRC as Part of First Required Experience in Geriatrics.

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