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Reviews of Nine Lives, Volume 2 of the Life Stories Program, published by Eldergivers in September 2005. Rebekah Eppley, IOA's Associate Director of Annual Giving, wrote the story on Mountain View's Joe Moreno.
by Annie Nakao, Staff Writer
SF Chronicle, July 29, 2005

East Bay: Elders Share Perspective of Experience with Writer/Confidants
"He's nearly 90 and, as he puts it, 'in the infirmities of old age.' But former San Francisco Examiner political writer Sydney Kossen's bright, inquiring mind--which once took on presidents...hasn't gone anywhere...." More

In Nursing Homes, Writers Affirm Lives - 'Nine Lives' Book Project Gives a Voice to Isolated Elders
"'After just two weeks of visits, Joe [the 77-year-old Moreno, informal mayor/tour guide/chief nice guy of the Mountain View Healthcare Center] announced that he didn't have anything else to tell me,' wrote Rebekah Eppley, a writer and fund-raiser at the Institute on Aging in San Francisco. 'He'd told it all, he said, and seemed frustrated that he didn't have anyting else to share.' Of course, he did--like swimming in the irrigation ditches of Brawley because as a Mexican American, he was banned from 'Whites Only' pools;..." More

The Self-Made Man
KQED, Channel 9 - Television Documentary and Discussion
July 26, 2005

A documentary and discussion on the right to die and "rational" suicide
Patrick Arbore, Director of IOA's Center for Elderly Suicide Prevention, was an advisor for the documentary, The Self-Made Man, which aired Tuesday, July 26 on the local PBS station, KQED Channel 9. Read a synopsis of the film and join community discussions on PBS's website. The media coverage spurred by this documentary has helped to raise important questions. Thank you, Patrick and staff, for your important work in preventing elderly suicide.

Geary Housing Plan is Concern to Neighbors
by Emily Fancher, Staff Writer
SF Examiner, Monday, July 18, 2005

A housing development for seniors at the site of an old Geary Boulevard movie theater is raising concerns among some neighbors, who fear the six-story project is a harbinger of bigger, denser developments on the Richmond District's main thoroughfare... More

Institute on Aging Plans for Geary Homecoming
by Harriet Chiang
SF Chronicle, Friday, July 8, 2005, Section F1
Building will provide seniors with housing, medical care, services... More

Hot Line a Matter of Life or Death for the Elderly
by Carolyn Said
SF Chronicle, June 21, 2005, Section B1

Kevin, a San Francisco man who suffers from severe depression, has a slender lifeline that brings him some solace. Every evening, he receives a call from the Friendship Line, a crisis and support line for seniors... More

Golden Years Tarnished by Abuse
by Jim Doyle
SF Chronicle, May 31, 2005 - Front Page Story

"Elder abuse, like all kinds of family violence, is extremely complex, medically and otherwise," said Mary Twomey, director of the elder abuse prevention program at the Institute on Aging in San Francisco. "It's a rare case of elder abuse that doesn't involve some complicated family dynamics, often generations of family dysfunction, and the unfamiliarity that comes with the role change that starts when children become caretakers of their parents."

Abuse of Elderly All Too Common, S.F. Officials Say
by John Wioldermuth
SF Chronicle, May 25, 2005

"We're 10 years behind domestic violence and 20 years behind childabuse when it comes to public awareness of elder abuse." Mary Twomey, Elder Abuse Prevention program of San Francisco's Institute on Aging.

On the Scene in Baton Rouge with Bay Area Rabbi
by Rabbi Eric Weiss
Director, Bay Area Jewish Healing Center (a program of Institute on Aging)
The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, September 23, 2005 - Cover Story

Following Hurricane Katrina, people across the country answered the call to help. One was Rabbi Eric Weiss of the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center in San Francisco. Together with his colleague Gail Kolthoff, he spent a week in Baton Rouge assisting Rabbi Stan Zemeck, a former rabbi at San Francisco’s Congregation Sherith Israel. What follows is a first-person chronicle of Weiss’ experiences.