Sunday, December 11, 2016

Eviction notices posted on retirement home doors shock seniors

WESTWOOD, Calif. -- Flossy Liebman is a collector of clocks, but she’s losing time. The 95-year-old says she and the roughly 200 others at Vintage Westwood Horizons senior living center are being evicted, CBS Los Angeles reported.
Many of the residents are in their 90s.

Notices were posted on the residents’ doors last week, saying the seniors have until the end of March to move -- and most don’t know where to go.

“I mean everybody’s panicked,” Liebman said.

“People have been calling around to all of the facilities that take seniors in any capacity and are finding no spaces anywhere,” daughter Jane Blumenfield said. “Just waiting lists.”

Some of the residents have financial limitations. Loneliness is also a factor. At the senior center, they say they don’t feel alone.

“It’s their life,” Blumenfield said. “It’s their whole social network.”


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Eviction notices posted on retirement home doors shock seniors

1 comment:

Scott said...

It's a very cruel thing to do.