There are many options for those who are in their senior years in today’s world. Whether you’re exploring help with everyday tasks or other senior living services for yourself or a family member, The American Israelite invites you to explore the following organizations which can help meet these special needs in the Cincinnati area.
Anthology
Anthology Senior Living is bringing independent living, assisted living and memory care to the beautiful and vibrant Summit Park neighborhood.
The community was designed to stimulate the mind, body and spirit of residents on a daily basis. Anthology Senior Living’s exquisite accommodations feature studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom senior friendly floorplans. Apartments are well-appointed with spacious layouts, granite countertops, and personal alert systems.
Amenities at Anthology Senior Living of Blue Ash include an outdoor bocce court, manicured gardens and top-of-the-line fitness center. The Blue Ash site will offer “anytime dining,” which means that if a resident wants to have steak for breakfast or pancakes for dinner, they can. All meals are prepared by an onsite executive chef, whose seasonal menus are inspired by fresh, locally sourced ingredients.
Programming at Anthology Senior Living will focus on six dimensions of wellness: emotional, intellectual, environmental, physical, spiritual and emotional. Activities are designed to trigger synapsis in the brain that engage both short-term and long-memory, which are crucial in keeping the mind sharp.
Anthology Senior Living of Blue Ash prioritizes resident and team member safety and wellness. Customized care plans are paired with cutting edge technology — all residents will be provided with necklaces or wristbands which will not only provide access to their specific apartment and amenities throughout the building but will also offer the peace of mind of a fall detection monitor. Anthology Senior Living is also enrolled in the Pharmacy First program, granting priority COVID-19 vaccine access to residents and team members.
Anthology Senior Living team members are certified in CARES, a nationally renowned training program through the Alzheimer’s Association. The new building will also implement cognitive stimulation therapy through a Canada-based company called Fit Minds.
Anthology Senior Living, a vertically integrated owner and operator of senior living communities, has twenty eight communities across the country in eleven different states. Anthology operates one other community in Cincinnati, located in Anderson Township.
Anthology Senior Living of Blue Ash is located at 4351 Sycamore Creek Dr. Blue Ash, OH.
Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati
Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati (JCGC) serves the burial needs of the Greater Cincinnati Jewish community with care and dignity and honors the resting places of the community. Pledged to serve all, JCGC maintains and preserves 25 Jewish cemeteries across our two-century-old Jewish community, a unique model that provides sustainability into the future.
Beyond dignified burial, services offered by JCGC include assistance creating monuments and markers, secure pre-arrangements, monument cleaning services, and access to 35,000 burial records for genealogical research. Jewish Cemeteries has made a tradition of marking the graves of veterans with flags in preparation for Memorial Day. A marker for survivors of the Holocaust will soon be available as well.
Now is an advantageous time for making pre-arrangements as price points for both grave plots and interments will rise on May 1, 2024. Plots are available in cemeteries on both Cincinnati’s east and west sides, with especially broad options in the new Loveland Cemetery which promises to become a main communal resting place in coming decades.
JCGC cemeteries contain special memorials, natural beauty, and multitudes of fascinating and inspiring stories. Capital fundraising supports ongoing restoration that can require rebuilding monument foundations, replacing fencing, tree care, delicate repair and cleaning of ancient stones, and complex geological stabilization. Plans are now in process for spring-through-fall concentrated work especially in the hilly west side cemeteries, which date back to the nineteenth century.
Jewish Family Service
Jewish Family Service of Cincinnati strengthens lives and the community by providing professional social services to families and individuals in times of need. JVS helps lead the way to a Jewish community where everyone lives with dignity, security, and hope.
It is a nonprofit social service agency that serves all individuals without regard to religion, race, age, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, or ability to pay.
Growing older is just another part of the total life process. But the later years can become lonely and difficult for many older adults and a stressful time for their families.
Jewish Family Service has many services it offers. The Aging and Caregiver Services program at Jewish Family Services was created to help older adults maintain their independence and enhance their involvement with their family and their community.
They offer counseling for youth, young adults and older adults.
Most recently, Jewish Family Service opened an Adult Day Service for those struggling with cognitive issues and help caregivers more time to themselves. LifeLabs offers free educational discussions around specific topics people experience through the lifespan. They are designed to help them understand and navigate situations that can be difficult, complex and emotionally challenging.
Jewish Family Service also offers support through the Barbash Family Vital Support Center, the Heldman Family Food Pantry, emergency food assistance, homelessness support, case management, delivery of Passover food for those unable to afford to celebrate the holiday, and help with food stamps.
Majestic Care/ Cedar Village
A life well lived in a place you call home. That’s Majestic Care. Our caring environment and the friendships you’ll form here set us apart. Majestic Care is a community built on values everyone can appreciate, with the purpose of making residents feel like they are right where they should be, each and every day. Warm, inviting and comfortable. Surrounded by state-of-the-art health services and high-quality programs and activities. It’s where you’re meant to be.
At Majestic Care, take advantage of a doctor’s care right onsite. If you need a doctor’s advice or help, stop by our onsite clinic and visit with one of our experts on campus. Skip the wait and know you’re in good hands.
At Majestic Care, we strive to provide older adults with the freedom to live their lives as they choose. From independent and assisted living to rehabilitation and skilled nursing. Everyone has their own unique needs, histories and personalities, and by meeting their individual physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs, we can be sure they enjoy an optimal quality of life.
Mayerson JCC: 60 & Better Center
The 60 & Better Center at the Mayerson JCC serves active older adults in the community, allowing them to fully participate in life at the J, including art, wellness, and technology classes; socialization programs; kosher lunches; and transportation.
Its Senior Meals program offers both dine-in and carryout selections, all prepared kosher by the JCC kitchen and J Café. They also offer a meal delivery service for homebound senior adults through the Meals on Wheels program. Between the two programs, they served nearly one hundred thousand meals last year.
To keep seniors healthy, active, and engaged in community life, the 60 & Better Center offers almost twelve hundred in-person and virtual programs each year. Socialization programs include exciting day trips to local attractions, ongoing groups and classes that encourage adults to learn new skills, and fitness classes geared toward staying active and strong.
The J’s Transportation Services allow senior adults to move freely around the community, giving them more independence and greater access to activities that contribute to a better quality of life. The fleet of vehicles provide comfortable and accessible transportation to and from the J for activities, to community events, and for non-medical appointments.
In addition to services provided by the 60 & Better Center, the Mayerson JCC offers a wide variety of arts, ideas, and Jewish life programming for adults of all ages, including those sixty and over.
Mercy Health- The Jewish Hospital
Mercy Health, including Jewish Hospital, is leading Cincinnati health care through its mission and values.
The Jewish Hospital – Mercy Health was founded in 1850, when a cholera epidemic sickened thousands of Cincinnatians. The Jewish community saw a need to provide care for poor Jews, and founded the first Jewish hospital in the United States. Since its early days, The Jewish Hospital has always welcomed and cared for people of every faith.
The hospital has a legacy of teaching the next generation of physicians dating back more than one hundred years, and today residents in surgery, medicine, podiatry and pharmacy all train at The Jewish Hospital.
The hospital’s services include the region’s first and most comprehensive adult blood and marrow transplant center; enhanced neurosciences capabilities with a brain tumor center; a premier joint replacement center performing nearly one thousand total joint replacements every year; the region’s most experienced mobile mammography program; the weight management center and full-spectrum cardiovascular and emergency services.
As the largest nonprofit health care system in Ohio, Mercy Health has a mission to serve the entire community, especially the poor and underserved. With five hospitals, as well as more than one hundred and eighty doctor’s offices, clinics and care locations throughout Greater Cincinnati, it works to ensure that its patients have easy access to safe, effective, timely and cost-efficient care. Mercy Health does everything to help its patients be well — mind, body and spirit.
Northern Hills Synagogue POW! Collective
The POW! Collective gives people over the age of 65 an opportunity to meet new people and explore previously unknown skills in art! The POW! Collective allows seniors to do not-Jewish things with other Jewish peers!
The POW! Collective grew out of a program for women aged 21-45 called the Women’s Care Collective, which is funded by the Thelma Masten Foundation. The success of the Women’s Care Collective led Northern Hills Synagogue to create this event series for people over 65.
Each month, our POW! Collective group heads out to studios around the Cincinnati area to learn new skills with new people. Last month, we visited Manitou Candle Co. Participants designed their own fragrances and made two candles to take home. Next month, on February 27, we will explore tea from around the world at Churchill’s Fine Tea.
Each program does require some payment. But don’t let cost stand in your way! If you want to join us but need additional help, it is always available. Cost should never be a barrier to participation in any event.
We are grateful to the Jewish Home of Cincinnati for partially funding this program. With their help, we can expand the program series beyond Northern Hills and help reduce social isolation in Jews over 65, help them gain new skills, learn more about what Cincinnati has to offer, and boost their confidence in themselves and their community. Join us for our remaining four months to take care of your mind, body, and soul!
StarPoint Home Care
StarPoint Home Care, LLC is a local Cincinnati private-pay agency. As a non-profit, StarPoint is dedicated to first meeting the needs of our clients who trust us to help them with daily living activities. Caregivers are available 24/7 to help older adults with daily living activities, so they feel comfortable, secure, and independent while remaining in familiar surroundings.
StarPoint Home Care is steeped in Jewish culture and traditions. Caregivers can prepare meals following kosher dietary laws, and they are provided special training to help serve the unique needs of Holocaust survivors.
Caregivers assist with bathing, grooming, dressing, shopping, light housekeeping, meal preparation, transportation and much more.
StarPoint was originally founded by the Jewish Home of Cincinnati in 2008 to ease the life of senior adults and their family members by connecting them with trusted, experienced home care aides. We are proud to now be under the umbrella of Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati area, which has been recognized locally and nationally for its devotion to helping older adults maintain independence since 1943.
Toron Law Firm
When you think Medicaid and elder law, think Toron Law Firm.
When we tell our clients that we enjoy Medicaid cases, they look at us in disbelief. Many people look to Medicaid to help pay for long term care. However, the rules and complexities of Medicaid are difficult to navigate. Thinking about your loved one’s nursing home care is a stressful task. When it comes to figuring out how to pay for long term care, the burden intensifies. We take pride in our Medicaid knowledge and our ability to build a straightforward plan for our clients. Alleviating this stress and burden from our clients is our number one goal.
Although Medicaid is our firm’s focus, we provide services such as advising on asset protection, creating trusts, writing a will, and developing comprehensive plans to meet the specific needs of our clients. It is important for people of all ages to have a plan in place in case anything should happen. Whether it’s a simple will or a more comprehensive plan, our firm is dedicated to fulfilling your wishes. We make sure to take care of current concerns while keeping in mind potential factors that may arise in the future.
Most importantly, we take immense pride in our commitment to providing each client with personalized and individualized attention. From the moment you walk through our doors, you can expect to be treated as an individual with distinct needs, concerns, and goals. Our team takes the time to thoroughly understand your case, ensuring that we grasp the nuances and intricacies that make it distinct. This commitment to individualized attention enables us to develop strategies and legal approaches that are specifically crafted to address your particular situation.
Our firm’s emphasis on individualized attention extends beyond the legal aspect of your case; it encompasses a commitment to clear and open communication. We pride ourselves on being accessible to our clients, providing them with regular updates, and promptly responding to inquiries. We recognize the importance of building strong attorney-client relationships built on trust and understanding. By prioritizing individualized attention, we aim to not only meet, but exceed our clients’ expectations, ensuring that they feel supported, informed, and confident throughout the legal process.
If you are looking for an attorney to help you understand and plan for Medicaid or to advise you with general estate planning, we are here to help. We have locations in Cincinnati, Blue Ash, and West Chester. We are more than happy to have a free initial consultation to assess your individual situation. If you have any questions and want a quick, no hassle, no commitment response, please email us. No question is too small or too large. We want to help anyone who needs it. Medicaid planning is important, but it isn’t easy. Let us do the work.
Weil-Kahn Funeral Home
For more than four generations Weil-Kahn Funeral Home has been dedicated to providing efficient and compassionate service at a time of great distress and anxiety.
Long-time owner Bob Weil recently sold the funeral home to Bill Kahn, who has worked at Weil-Kahn Funeral Home for more than thirty years. Bill’s father Sylvan was also a long-time employee at the funeral home.
This means that, after more than one hundred years of practice in Cincinnati, that Weil-Kahn Funeral Home will continue to serve the community in a caring and professional manner. Attention to all details is their proud hallmark.
Weil-Kahn Funeral Home offers services ranging from the most traditional Orthodox Jewish to a less traditional or even non-religious ceremony. Attention to all details is our proud hallmark.
Services include the use of their chapel, which is wheelchair accessible and able to comfortably hold more than three hundred and fifty people. This allows them to handle large public funerals or small private ceremonies, whichever the family desires. Also provided are all-necessary materials for Jewish practices, including all-wood orthodox caskets, burial vaults, traditional burial garments, kriah ribbons, shiva candles, acknowledgement cards, registry books, folding chairs, shiva stools, prayer books and other requested items.
Weil-Kahn Funeral Home is nothing if not accommodating. Services can be arranged at the cemetery, at Temples or Synagogues or various other locations in the area.
