Tables Reserved for the Healthiest - NYT

[Bozita]

February 9, 2012, 3:04 PM
Tables Reserved for the Healthiest
By PAULA SPAN


Residents at Harbor’s Edge, an upscale retirement community in downtown Norfolk, Va., appreciate their gracious dining room, called the River Terrace. They like the country club cuisine, the socializing, the view of ships passing on the Elizabeth River.

Until recently, William Hodges had dinner there every evening with his wife, Betty. Dorothy and Thomas Evans hosted out-of-town guests and celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas there with their son. Lindsay Bilisoly regularly shared meals there with his parents, Frank and Indie.

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But last spring, managers declared the River Terrace and two other dining facilities at the community off limits to anyone but independent living residents. Assisted living residents were told to use their own small dining room; nursing residents were restricted to theirs.

Family members were instructed to join them there. But longtime friends — and several married couples — who lived in separate parts of the facility could no longer share meals in the main dining room. Those in assisted living or nursing care also were also barred from community events like the Fourth of July celebration.

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[barbtries]

1. all i want to do

is die before i have to go into one of those places. this world's getting too mean anyway.

[RKP5637]

3. Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. Worst thing I can think of is possibly having

to be dependent on someone else in todays world. I think about it often.

[DrDan]

2. corporate thinking . . . dehumanize the residents and guests at the expense of profits and marketing

objectives

[MrYikes]

4. My first thought was "Why?"

What benefit is there to ostracize the people?

[Peregrine Took]

5. My 89 year old sister in law has contempt for walker users

even though she uses one.