California Armenian Home- Congratulations to ex City Councilman Rod Anaforian new Sales Manager of San Joaquin Terraces

Rod Anaforian, ex Fresno City Councilman
New Sales Manager of San Joaquin Terraces Nursing Home and Senior  Community
NOW WE KNOW WHERE ALL THE ARMENIANS WILL BE GOING
GOOD BY CALIFORNIA ARMENIAN DUMP  HOME

This place is fantastic, has a classy staff of educated administrators and licensed people.
The Administrator here has an MBA in Health Care Management.  Yuba?  doesn't even have a high school diploma.

FRESNO, Calif. -- Rod Anaforian has joined The Terraces at San Joaquin Gardens as the new director of sales. In his position, Anaforian will oversee marketing and sales operations at the continuing care retirement community (CCRC) located in Fresno.

“Rod is an experienced marketing professional and extremely knowledgeable when it comes to senior living,” said Jessica Lopez, executive director for The Terraces at San Joaquin Gardens. “He’ll be a great resource for area seniors and their families who are interested in moving to a CCRC, and we’re very excited to have him lead our team.”

Anaforian has more than 15 years of sales experience, and previously worked as the director of client services for Qforma, Inc. in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and as the chief operations officer for Lance-Kashian & Company in Fresno. He also served as a territory, district and regional sales manager for Organon Pharmaceuticals in Roseland, New Jersey.

“The Terraces already has a great reputation, and I’m ready to build upon its continued success,” said Anaforian. “I am looking forward to working with potential new residents and their families, and discuss the advantages of residing in a CCRC.”

Anaforian is a graduate of California State University in Long Beach, Calif., where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in social science and a master of arts degree in international relations. He was also elected twice to the Fresno City Council and is co-author of a sales management tip book titled, Rising Above The Crowd.

About The Terraces at San Joaquin Gardens

The Terraces at San Joaquin Gardens is committed to enriching the lives of older adults. For more than 45 years, the community, located at 5555 North Fresno Street, has delivered one of the most engaging lifestyles in the area. In addition to residential living, the community offers residents access to a full continuum of on-site assisted living, memory support and skilled nursing. For more information about The Terraces at San Joaquin Gardens, call 1-800-895-8019 visit www.TheTerracesAtSanJoaquin.com.


The Terraces at San Joaquin Gardens is owned and managed by ABHOW, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation. ABHOW is a nonsectarian corporation, serving seniors through quality retirement housing since 1949. ABHOW seeks to enhance the well-being and security of seniors through the provision of housing, health care and supportive services, and was a pioneer in the development of CCRCs. For more information about ABHOW, visit www.ABHOW.com

Fresno’s most complete senior living community

Residential living and quality health services.

The Terraces at San Joaquin Gardens is on the leading edge of retirement living in Fresno. We know you want flexibility, options and peace of mind for the future – and that’s exactly what you’ll get here. By transforming and expanding our community, we’re looking ahead to continue to offer area seniors more choices, more opportunities and more from life.

With our residential living lifestyle, you’re free to focus on all the things you love about life, without worrying about daily chores and maintenance. Plus, you’ll have peace of mind knowing your future is secure with guaranteed access to our continuing care services, including assisted living, memory support, nursing care and short-term rehabilitation. Our health services, which recently earned a Five-Star rating – the highest possible – from the U.S. Government Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, are also available through direct admission to local residents of Fresno.

Freedom, choices and a firm plan to live happily, healthy and secure? That’s better retirement. Welcome to The Terraces.

 

 LOOK AT THE BEAUTFUL CAFE IN THE RECREATION AREA?  BEAUTFIUL ROOMS WITH LIGHT, NOT OLD CRAP WITH DARKNESS AND MOLD ON THE GROUND.  CALIFORNIA ARMENIAN HOME RECENTLY REPLACED BACTERIA GROWING LINOLEUM FOR WOOD FLOORS (EVEN MORE ISSUES)  TILE IS THE BEST.

GOOD BYE CALIFORNIA ARMENIAN HOME.  ARMENIANS WITH MONEY ARE GOING TO FOLLOW ROD ANAFORIAN.  NOT YUBA THE NAZI.

California Armenian Home, NY Times on the change of demographics for Nursing homes

The shift of long term nursing care to minorities, while the white aging population and government funds shift to encourage home health care.  All the more reason to take the word "Armenian" off the sign as the California Armenian Home has no support from the Armenian community.  There is nothing Armenian about the "California Armenian Home" except the name and the board members and occasional Armenian dinner served.  Take the name "Armenian" off and use the parent name "California Home for the Aged" stop the prejudice toward non-Armenians. 

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/white-flight-from-the-nursing-home/?_r=0

White Flight From the Nursing Home

By PAULA SPAN

The number of older Americans living in nursing homes continues to fall, and the proportion of residents who are black, Hispanic or Asian has climbed sharply. But don’t expect cheers from the Brown University researchers who’ve tracked this major shift in long-term care.

The back story here is that for years advocates have urged the federal government to strengthen alternatives so that fewer old people have to live, and die, in nursing homes. Nobody really wants to be there — seniors historically have said they prefer to remain at home as long as possible. But the system was long out of kilter: Medicaid would pay for nursing home care, but was much stingier about underwriting home care, assisted living and other options.

This led to an extended attempt at “rebalancing” — funneling more Medicaid money into home and community programs and less into institutionalization. And it’s working. Though Medicaid still devoted only 42 percent of its spending on long-term care to home and community programs in 2008, that’s more than double the proportion in 1995.

“It’s been a gradual 20- to 30-year effort, and the pace is getting faster,” said Zhanlian Feng of the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research at Brown University.

That’s one reason the nation’s nursing home population fell from 1.6 million elderly residents in the 1990 to 1.2 million in 2008.

At the same time, the nursing home population is growing more ethnically and racially diverse. “Thirty years ago, reports from the Institute on Medicine and from civil rights groups raised a lot of concern about lack of access to nursing homes” for minority elders, Dr. Feng said. But over the decade from 1999 to 2008, the number of black residents in nursing homes grew by 10.8 percent, and the Asian and Hispanic populations climbed by more than 50 percent.

Good news, right? Maybe not. “On the surface, it looks like we’ve achieved parity,” Dr. Feng told me in an interview. “But this is disparity in disguise.”

He and his colleagues, analyzing federal data on residents in nursing homes that receive Medicare and Medicaid (virtually all of them), just published their findings in the journal Health Affairs. They’ve turned up some disturbing developments.

“Whites are aging as well, but you’re not seeing more of them in nursing homes,” Dr. Feng said. “Their numbers are declining.” The proportion of white residents fell 10.2 percent over the decade, while the growth in minority nursing home residents outpaced the growth in the nation’s minority population in general.

What’s happening? “Minorities don’t have as many choices as white elders,” said Dr. Feng.

Take assisted living facilities, which have siphoned off more than a million residents who might earlier have entered nursing homes. Assisted living facilities are expensive, generally private-pay and located in affluent communities.

“On average, whites have more income and education and can better afford these options,” Dr. Feng said. “They don’t have to go to nursing homes, or they’re better able to delay going.”

With greater scrutiny, then, this demographic trend represents a less happy reality. Just as minority seniors are pouring into nursing homes, whites are turning to more attractive choices and staying out.

Because there’s much less data on who, exactly, relies on home and community services, compared with who enters nursing homes, Dr. Feng is couching this explanation as a hypothesis.

He notes that the statistics may also reflect cultural changes. Immigrant communities that care for parents in multigenerational households may be less able to maintain that practice as they acculturate. “A lot of things are happening to undermine those traditional family options,” he said. He’s seen a similar shift in his native China, a topic I’ll return to in a subsequent post.

Over all, he sees a good news-bad news story, in which minority seniors get stuck in the institutions that whites have the means to avoid. “I’m struck by this persistent disparity,” Dr. Feng said. “It looks like we’re making some progress, but not really. The disparities are still there and are deeply rooted in history, geography, segregation and socioeconomic differences.”