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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Sunday, January 28, 1996 AAS Elderly Get By With a Little Help From Their Friends ihood handicap lim I to use a cane. A 41. Some n AM By Marty Rosen gardless of income AN NEWS SEI In St. Paul, volunteers canvass The federal grants have hel:Iped So have plugs from Sen, Paul participating neighborhoods for Wellstone, D-Minn., and the Ford Foundation. But the home-grown programto keep the elderly out of nursing homes gets its biggest boost from neighbors watching Locals call it “Minnesota Nice Sometimes theysayit jokingly and sometimes they Sayit gratefully,” said Lynn Thibodeau. 72, a retired St. Paul journalist who recovered at home from a double bypass operation last year with assistancefrom the Living at Home/Block Nurse Program “It probably saved mysanity. To be put into some othercare facility would have washed me down the Started in the 1980s by residents of a St. Paul neighborhood alarmedby the unmetneedsofelderly neighbors, the Living at Home program has growninto a net of home-health-care services. Elderlyparticipants get fed, comforted, read to and nursed, re nancing Administration has run You're exactly said with a spinoff of the Living at right she Forcing Solutions: Too many morevolunteers: someone to iron shirts, play cards, offer a ride to _niors Project, as part of anational effort to control Medicare spend of Minnesota's elderly were in nursing homes: about 8 percent of Allan Forman, 91, saidhestart- In Minnesota, organizers see the doctor's office ed getting help through his ing the program — nowspreading to other states — as a model for re-_ rectors and hires a program man ager and staff. Homeprogram, the Healthy Se- those whoneedhelp as well as for church when his eyesight beganto out for one another cess. The federal Health CareFi the elderly population. finds they Each program ks its own financing. although I have begun to collaborate funding has become more com petitive, said Alice Seuntjens, the National- cent. Legislators. recognizing the Specific Services: problemin 1985, capped the num- hrichta i for ? signs Gn help with ed Should program’s assistant director ly, the number is closer to 5pet I church tmake inter founder of NEVA HRTEM OR RAHI cert Referrals {© Prostam eyecare lu come from friends. someone in 1dav. ! oni wath eli ete fail. “They wanted to know if I'd beinterested in having someone comeandvisit.” He let the volunteer into his ducing thesecosts. So far. it appears the nurse-managed program is about one-third less expensive than typical fee-for- her of licensed beds at about 44,000 and forced communities 10 seek solutions The program grew through a church, someone in the neighborhood. No one is turned away for lack of money, and the services are as specific as the needs My pattern has been to think 0f people I know who are sort 0: naturals relating to hesaid, adding that he wouldn't have given a government worker according to Jamieson. There are shorterstays in the hospital. few- eral funding. private grants from St. Paul’s H.B. Fuller Foundation writer. was hospitalized three months following her bypass sur soked for good listeners, people who can handle a confidence gency room visits percent of the unfunded nursing care, wouldn't live with her adult Porhoods Insteadof a client going toan outpatient clinic. the nurse says. and home-health-aide costs. They 1 bake sales and eandy drives. children and fought gainst hav ing a stranger in her four-story St Similar living-at-home pro grams have developed in Colum Neighborhood-run district coun- Paul home bia, S.C., home. “We'vehad a great time,” the same access. It's because there's trust,” said Marjorie Jamieson, executive director of the private, non- profit program. “It’s because the home health aide lives down the block or the nurse goes to their church. Depression-era people areterrified the government will provide services and take away their homes.” Health-Care Success: Well- stonetouts it as a health-care suc- service home health programs, er ambulancetrips, fewer emer- ‘I'll stop by and see you.’ called appropriate care,” sonsaid patchwork of county support.fedand donations to cover about It’s Jamie- ils. publicly supported planning bodies. unique Paul. we sponsors Even as the program grew. encompassing 15 Minneapolis and the elderly. Another nurse, read St. ing hercommentsinacommunity community newspaper. volunteered to help Each appoints its own board of di kept refused someone People.” transitional invade tive to that more than one each she said She's alwy That's important in small neigh my and Birmingham, Some supporters home? I wasn’t mentally recep- the original neighborhoods. She To have to St. ing professor recognized that the acute care system wasn't serving Paul gery. citizen The Living at Home program began in 1981, when alocal nurs- among Lynn Thibodeau. the retired 20 ta progra it didn’t take dav to convince Ala of the Minnes¢ y can't work out side a close-knit community I think it can work wherever me,” she said. The nurse assigned to change her dressings each da people have some sense of cor cern for the common good. Wher became aclose friend. ever there 1y “It became social thing I looked forward to each da nunity. value for com It that.” Rohricht said Scientist Swims Into Hot Water SEATTLE TIMES BREMERTON. Wash. — When he’s giggling with his wife or try- ing to jump-start his old dies Rabbit, Norm Buske seems li regular-enough guy a But federal prosecutors allege he’s a criminal. 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