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Show OHI Sade Tannebaum 7-4-82 sl:21 JK You spoke a little bit about the Jewish families, being a little bit different now. When your husband died, you could have used help, but they didn't really have any kind of structured program. How did that actually come about? ST I think that we had a few families here. Fortunately, we haven't had--there have been too many families here that actually needed financial or that help. TheOld timers, some of them -- Of course, they're al dwindling down to nothing -- [They] '"were strictly kosher. Most of our homes are not kosher. We couldn't come in and say, "Here, we're going tobring a meal in to you." I don't know if you mean other help than that or not. And so, gradually we didn't think of those things. We weren't close with them and I guess that people as a whole felt that people didn't want to be bothered. That if, God forgive, something happened to them, they were with themselves and their families. Their immediate family. I've been <Dl the Jewish Family Board for a long t ;ime .. And when I left, I got off, and then went back again. I've always yelled for visiting committees for the shut-ins. For the elderly. I can't get anybody to go. There are very few. Years back, there were a few. I'd be on a committee with some and we'd made it a point that once a 1 month, we would go. Or maybe, if it needed, oftener. We'd go to see these people. And as far as help, there were very few that needed financial help. It wa~ just merely the [action] of going, and seeing, 'how are you.' If you wanted to bring alittle sweet or fruit or something,that was fine. But now, and fortunately, we don't have cases where they need the financial help. |
