By TOM LAVENTURE
AAP staff writer

ROSEVILLE, Minn. (May 16, 2011) – For more than half a century Donald S. Maeda has been making dental crowns – and is still making them at age 86 in his own Roseville dental lab. He prefers work to idle time and says he won’t slow down as long as he can do the job.

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APABA board members Lorraine Yu, Dennis Wu, Billy Sung, and Deborah Yim (from left to right). Dennis and Deborah were two of the organizers of Elder Law Day. (Contributed photo courtesy of APALC/APABA)

Los Angeles, Calif. (February 26, 2011) – The Asian Pacific American Bar Association and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center on Saturday held its second Elder Law Day at the Angelus Plaza, a low income senior residential facility in Los Angeles.  The half-day event consisted of an elder fraud prevention workshop focusing on financial fraud and Medicare fraud prevention and free legal assistance to elders in completing advance health care directives, power of attorney for finance, and simple statutory wills.

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By TOM LAVENTURE
AAP staff writer

ST. PAUL (October 21, 2010) – The Korean Service Center celebrated its 20th Anniversary last weekend at Ramada Plaza Hotel in Minneapolis. It has much to celebrate as a model organization that has expanded its elder assisted living care to other immigrant groups that utilize the Cedar Towers. Yoonju Park, executive director, recognized elders and significant people who helped the organization come to being. She said that now is the time to turn over the KSC to second-generation Koreans and the adult Korean adoptee community. A special committee was formed to help make the transition a seamless one.

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Holly Springs, NC (October 13, 2010) – As the weather turns and leaves begin to fall this year, new research shows that local aging seniors are well served to get up and grab a rake themselves – for more reasons than one. A group of four recent studies published in 2010 Harvard University health and medicine journals shows a surprising and strong connection between seniors, exercise, and mental and physical health, especially among aging women.

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Hope Specialty Healthcare staff, seated from left, Kabou Xiong, RN, and Suzie Chao, Marketing Director. Standing from left, David Splittstoesser and Mark Joplin, investors, and May Lo, Director of Administration. (AAP staff photos by Tom LaVenture)

By TOM LAVENTURE

AAP staff writer

Elders, especially those with special health needs, would be better served and have better quality of life in an assisted living situation if they have more personal attention from staff and live in a home setting.

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Diabetes is a serious issue affecting 24 million Americans. It’s a major health concern and mounting problem for the country as a whole – especially for the rapidly expanding senior population around the Twin Cities Metro area.

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Joseph T. Crowe, director, Quality Career Services, Inc., 2515 Wabash Avenue in St. Paul, with Chad “Toojvas” Lee, Southeast Asian community liaison.

By TOM LAVENTURE

AAP staff writer

ST. PAUL (Feb. 19, 2010) – Chad “Toojvas” Lee, the new Southeast Asian community liaison for the Senior Community Service Employment Program at Quality Career Services is busy qualifying elders with jobs through a new program.

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