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By Paul Bridgewater This year’s back-to-school season


will be busy for older adults who want to better manage caregiving responsibilities, adopt healthier lifestyles and find new volunteer opportunities. The events listed below will improve the quality of life for participants and others in the community -- and all are activities of the Detroit Area Agency on Aging and our partners.


Monday, Sept. 6 – Labor Day - Hol-


iday Meals on Wheels Deliveries: Vol- unteers are still needed to pack and deliver meals for over 3500 homebound seniors on Labor Day. We need volunteers to pack hot meals from 6:00 – 10:00 a.m., and volunteer drivers to deliver meals be- tween 8:00 a.m. and noon. Remember: Hunger Takes No Holiday. To help, call DAAA, 313-446-4444, ext. 5804.


Wednesday & Thursday, Sept. 8 &


9 – 3rd Annual Michigan Kinship Care Conference and Grandfamily Reunion: This conference, at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, will give both caregivers and professionals information on legal and custodial issues, the ethics and challenges of caregiving, managing difficult behav- iors in children, and much more. New this year, nurses and social workers can earn 5.5 Continuing Education Units through the Institute of Gerontology - Wayne State University. For information, call DAAA, 313-446-4444, or visit www. daaa1a.org (see Programs and Services


for the complete conference program). Saturday, Sept. 11, NSO’s 4th An-


nual 5K Detroit RiverRun & Walk: Registration gets underway at 7:00 a.m. on the Detroit RiverWalk for this walker- friendly event to benefit Neighborhood Service Organization programs and ser- vices. For information, call 313-961-4890 or register online at www.nso-mi.org.


Saturday, Sept. 11 – Walk the Walk


for Healthy Families: Free Family Health Fair and Screening Event: The Belle Isle Casino in Detroit is the location for this event, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., sponsored by 100 Black Men of Greater Detroit in partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. For infor- mation, visit www.100blackmendetroit. org.


Sunday, Sept. 12 – National Grand-


parents Day Celebration: AARP Mich- igan, in collaboration with the Women’s Committee of the Charles H. Wright Mu- seum, honors the contributions of grand- parents from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Museum. For information, call 313- 832-6846.


Saturday, Sept. 18 – Salute to


Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: This annual celebration is sponsored by DAAA’s Grandparents Raising Grand- children Committee, by invitation only.


Tuesday, Sept. 21 – Awareness Con- ference for Metro-Detroit Caregiv-


THE MICHIGAN CHRONICLE Seniors – Mark Your Calendars!


ers and Seniors: This free conference, scheduled on World Alzheimer’s Day, is sponsored by the City of Detroit Senior Citizens Department, the Elder Law & Advocacy Center of Neighborhood Le- gal Services Michigan, and SAC Adult Day Care, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., at Northwest Activities Center in Detroit. Sessions will cover legal and financial matters, how to manage dementia pa- tients, maximizing adult day care, quality of life issues and stress relief for caregiv- ers, and more. For conference informa- tion, call 313-224-5444.


Thursday, Sept. 23 – National Falls


Prevention Day and Kick-off for A Matter of Balance: This new workshop, supported by the Detroit Area Agency on Aging, is an evidence-based program designed to reduce the fear of falling and increase the activity levels of older adults. It is designed for persons aged 60 and over who are ambulatory and able to problem solve, and have concerns about falling, have sustained a fall in the past, and are interested in improving flexibility, balance and strength. The kick-off and workshops will be held at St. Patrick’s Senior Center and the St. John Health Wellness Center. For information, call Anita Kanakaris, DAAA Healthy Aging Manager, 313-446-4444 ext. 5841.


Thursday, Sept. 23 – Prostate Can-


cer Treatment – What’s Right for You?: September is National Prostate Cancer


Glenn Beck Washington Rally: Much Ado about Nonsense


By Dr. Jason Johnson Last year I wrote a piece entitled “Glenn


Beck is my Kind of Revolutionary” which received a lot of attention precisely because I argued against conventional wisdom at the time and took a few well organized shots at Beck at the same time. A year ago, when Glenn Beck was ascending to his television peak the liberal left was borderline apoplec- tic about his rise to power. His ranting How- ard-Beale-like behavior on television, the way he seemed to connect with an audience of like minded men and women, his ability to get people in a presidential administration fired with nothing more than a few episodes, many in the punditry were convinced that an unstoppable monster was being created. I disagreed, I thought then that Glenn Beck was a joke and a coward, an example of the weak-willed nature of a spoiled and petulant strand of the Baby Boomer generation that has always been desperate to prove their vi- rility. After Beck’s rally to “Restore Honor” on the steps of the Lincoln memorial last week, not only was my initial opinion vali- dated, we have seen just how limited the reach of men like Glenn Beck really is.


Glenn Beck, Fox New’s most popular


television pundit, and the third most lis- tened to radio personality in America cre- ated quite the public stir over the last several weeks with his planned “Restore Honor” event in Washington D.C. The event was


promoted like a huge pro-Beck rally, and with prominent speakers like Sarah Palin on the schedule many feared that Beck was going to make some sort of frightening an- nouncement about his future political goals. But that was just the beginning of the con- troversy. Beck’s rally just so happened to be scheduled on the very same day, in the very same location as Martin Luther King’s pow- erful, moving and nation changing “I Have a Dream” speech. Was this just a coincidence, or was Glenn Beck attempting to put him- self on the same level as one of the greatest political leaders in the history of the world? Depends on what day you asked America’s ‘talk’ leader. At first he claimed he had no idea that his event and King’s shared the same date, only to claim later that this tim- ing coincidence was a sign that God was ap- proving and blessing his rally. Nevertheless out of respect for MLK Beck decided to give the speech two steps lower than where Rev- erend King stood. How gracious of him!


Al Sharpton was up in arms about Glenn


Beck’s rally, and held a very powerful and moving counter-rally and many political commentators condemned the event before it began. However, the furor and handwring- ing about “Restoring Honor” was unneeded. After watching the programming on Satur- day from beginning to end I’m left with the same feeling I’ve always had about Glenn Beck. He is by all accounts, a media force to


be reckoned with but politically and cultur- ally he is nothing to fear.


The entire rally was a kind of schlock


filled conservative suburbanite dream of convenient multi-culturalism and half baked ideology. The organizers and speakers bent over backwards to claim the event was a cel- ebration and religious in nature not political. Beck began the event claiming that Jews, Pilgrims and American Indians were God’s chosen people and the event descended from there. They gave out fake purple hearts to people they believed to be heroes, sang off key gospel songs and put together hundreds of minutes of mainstream Christian / Repub- lican mishmash that many people believe but none were converted. Which is really the point, Glenn Beck has a huge and powerful audience, but he’s not changing any hearts and minds at this point, in fact, putting on events like this, attempting to co-opt Martin Luther King’s legacy and claiming that his actions are driven by God Almighty have begun to slowly but surely turn off common sense Republicans let alone independents. It’s not shocking that Sarah Palin or Martin Luther King’s right wing daughter were part of the speaker’s list. But what was more prominent is the fact that prominent Republican elected officials in Congress


Electronic recordkeeping boosts patient safety The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) achieved significant improvements in patient safety


and quality of care, while also saving more than $5 million in costs last year, thanks to effi- ciencies created by its system-wide Electronic Medical Record (EMR). This system manag- es nearly all of the DMC’s patient health information via new computer-based technology. For the eight hospitals in the DMC system, it was the second year in a row in which


computer-based healthcare information processing created major improvements in quality of care and cost-savings. The windfall in savings - triggered by highly effective electronic monitoring of such cru-


cially important hospital tasks as treating pressure ulcers and preventing medication errors - was clear evidence that the DMC’s EMR system is providing a healthy return on invest- ment, according to DMC officials. DMC caregivers said they were greatly encouraged by the striking cost-savings from


EMR. The $50 million system has gone online throughout the DMC in gradual stages over a 12-year period, starting in 1998. “The latest numbers are in, and we continue to see great strides in improving quality,


treating patients more quickly and preventing error, which translates to dollar savings as well. This work with these results is very exciting,” said DMC Chief Nursing Officer Pa- tricia Natale, RN, after reviewing the results of a system-wide study showing the impact of EMR on both costs and patient care. The U.S. Institute of Medicine has estimated that up to 100,000 patients die as a result of hospital errors annually. The impact of EMR on treatment of pressure ulcers was especially noticeable, said


DMC quality-of-care administrators. They noted that the chronic sores often require ex- tended hospital stays and thus drive up costs. But the most recent DMC Patient Care Ser- vices study of severe pressure ulcer cases showed that close EMR monitoring of bedsores reduced the average length of stay required to treat them by nearly three full days last year . . . compared to the average length of ulcer-triggered stays before EMR monitoring of the problem began in 2008. The DMC study concluded that the reduction in the length of pressure ulcer-related hos-


pital stays - in a system that admits more than 75,000 patients each year - was now helping to generate more than $4.5 million in yearly cost savings. The hospital cost-savings are especially significant, said DMC caregivers, because the


soaring cost of healthcare in this country each year (more than $2.5 trillion) is now equal to 17.3 percent of the nation’s entire Gross Domestic Product. In spite of the savings to be had from hospital-based EMR, however, recent studies show


that the majority of U.S. hospitals have either failed to implement top-to-bottom EMR sys- tems - or are cutting back on information technology (IT) programs already in place. As of August 2010, fewer than four percent of U.S. hospitals had implemented the level


of system-wide electronic patient recordkeeping that is now in place at the DMC. In addi- tion, a recent study at the University of Michigan School of Medicine showed that more than one-fourth of the nation’s recession-affected hospitals have been cutting back on their al- ready existing IT programs. The cash-strapped hospitals were slashing IT budgets, reported the study in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, in spite of the fact that the Obama administra- tion has recently made available more than $2.73 billion in Medicare/Medicaid bonuses for clinicians and hospitals that spend to improve their electronic medical records systems. “The DMC has spent $50 million on building a powerful EMR system over the past five


or six years, and we did it because we like to think of ourselves as the ‘hospital of the future’ - as a state-of-the-art healing center where patients know they can get the best healthcare available anywhere today. “At the same time, the ability to greatly reduce healthcare costs via electronic medical records is an added bonus - which makes implementing EMR a win- win situation for everyone involved.”


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were conspicuously absent, or that event well known Tea Party activists and conservative pundits like Lenny McCal- lister publicly and vociferously reject- ed their invitations to the event because they considered the whole enterprise to be tactless.


So, don’t fear


Glen Beck, let him and his group of marginal followers hold their public temper tantrums with Sarah Palin. It just gives the rest of us more time to actually solve this nation’s problems rather than complain about them.


IN MEMORIAM IN LOVING MEMORY OF


ALFONSO L. BROWN, JR. (FUZZY)


April 27, 1955 – September 2, 2005


You are dearly missed and loved. I will never give up hope, In the Justice of your Death.


I smile when I think of our late night dates. Fuzzy,


I will meet you at the crossroads.


Love, Your wife, Moochie H. Brown


OBITUARY


Cynthia P. Jones-Johnson A celebration of the life of Cynthia P.


Jones-Johnson was held Saturday, April 10, at Calvary United Methodist Church of De- troit. Officiating was the Rev. Hilda Harris. Mrs. Jones-Johnson, first lady at New


Life Bible Church, made her transition April 2, six weeks before her 58th birthday. Born Cynthia P. Jones May 17, 1952, in


Montgomery, AL, she was the second oldest of seven children of the late Amos Sr. and Mildred R. Jones. Raised in Detroit, she at- tended the public schools, graduating from Central High School, where she was voted


most athletic female of her senior class. Working her way through college, she earned an associate degree at Highland Park Community College, bachelor of arts degree from Wayne State University and master’s degree in public admin- istration at the University of Hawaii. Mrs. Jones-Johnson married her husband of 27 years, New Life Pastor


George Johnson, in 1983 and often referred to her wedding as the “happiest day of my life,” In 1984, the Johnsons joined Trinity Missionary Baptist Church where was active in the Evangelism Ministry and the church choirs. In 2000, Rev, Johnson was called to the New Life Bible Church pastorate and Mrs. John- son, as first lady, was instrumental in establishing the church clothing and food giveaways and Children’s Choir, and was instrumental in beautification efforts at the church. Mrs. Jones-Johnson lived a full life devoted to service to others. In addition


to her church and community work, she loved her job as program coordinator of the Wateree Migrant Head Start Program for 17 years. Her other passions included bowling, fishing and singing gospel songs. In addition to Pastor Johnson, she is survived by a daughter, Aiysha Barno;


son, Oliver Johnson; her mother, Mildred Jones; two brothers, Willie and Deme- trius Jones; three sisters, Anna Ruth Montgomery, Joyce Hammon and Rose Taylor; two grandchildren, Alonzaia and Tyrone Jr.; an aunt, Pat McCree, and many other relatives. Burial was at Grand Lawn Cemetery. Arrangements were by the O.H. Pye III Funeral Home.


Awareness Month, and experts at the Kar- manos Cancer Center – Farmington Hills will hold a free program from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., to review the latest information on the treatment of prostate cancer, including robotic surgery, cryotherapy, hormones and chemotherapy, and the latest technol- ogy in radiation therapy. For information, call 800-KARMANOS.


Saturday, Sept. 25 – 4th Annual


Citywide Grant Drawing – Senior Emergency Home Repair Program: Low-income seniors, 65 and older, or physically disabled persons 55 and old- er, may apply for grants up to $12,000 for select home repairs. Entries must be submitted at Cobo Conference/Exhibi- tion Center in Detroit on September 25, between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., but it is not necessary to be present to be selected. For information, call 313-224-3461.


Tune in to “The Senior Solution” on WGPR


107.5FM every Saturday morning at 10 am, hosted by Paul Bridgewater, President & CEO, Detroit Area Agency on Aging. The Detroit Area Agency on Aging is located at 1333 Brew- ery Park Blvd., Suite 200, Detroit, MI 48207 (313) 446-4444, www. daaa1a.org.


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WARREN P. PALMER, DIRECTOR


NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY AND PUBLIC HEARING ON THE DRAFT 2009-2010 CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION REPORT (CAPER)


The CAPER describes the expenditures for projects implemented or completed between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010 for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME), Emer- gency Shelter Grants (ESG), and Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) programs. The report also discusses housing and community development goal and objective attainment as outlined in the Consolidated Plan strategy and Action Plans. The CAPER is submitted to HUD annually.


The Planning and Development Department will hold a public hearing to receive comments on the Draft 2009-2010 Consolidated Annual Performance And Evaluation Report (CAPER). The CAPER public hearing will be held on Mon- day, September 22, 2010, in the offices of the Planning and Development Department from 1 PM to 3 PM at the ad- dress shown below. During the public hearing, the CAPER will be described and citizens will be given the opportunity to comment on the report and the City’s performance in carrying out the Consolidated Plan Goals.


The Draft CAPER will be available for public review in the offices of the City of Detroit Planning and Development Department from September 8 to September 29, 2010 from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday thru Friday (see address be- low).


Planning and Development Department Grants Management Section Mrs. Sheryl Gray Dodds 1200 Cadillac Tower 65 Cadillac Square Detroit, Michigan 48226


Telephone: (313) 628-0044 or (313) 224-6380


Citizens are invited to comment on the Draft CAPER any- time during the review period--in person, by phone, or at the public hearing. Citizen comments will be summarized and included in the CAPER.


Notice of Non-Discrimination: The City of Detroit does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, national origin, age, handicap, sex or sexual orientation. Complaints may be filed with the Hu- man Rights Department of the City of Detroit, Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, Detroit, Michigan 48226.


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