| Elderly care center on the way
Plans for a multimillion-dollar comprehensive care center in Lynchburg for the frail elderly are moving toward an opening date of July 2008. The Lynchburg center, one of six to be established statewide, is a Program of All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE). Centra Health received a $250,000 grant, announced by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's office last year, as startup funding to establish the $3 million project. Original plans called for putting Centra PACE in a newly constructed building on a now-vacant property adjacent to the Johnson Health Clinic, located at 320 Federal St. Leasing is now the goal, rather than buying land and building. "We're hoping to play off what's established," said David Adams, Centra Health vice president, who oversees long-term care.
An Urgent Wake up Call for Business
How business and government will manage in the face of the coming of retirement age of the huge baby boom generation has been the subject of some discussion for more than a decade. Unforeseen when the red flag about this issue was first raised was the added pressure of the loss of productivity, the move to part-time employment, and early retirement resulting from the responsibilities of the boomers to their aging relatives. The recent news about the growth in the number of people with Alzheimers, along with the fact that increased longevity has brought an increase in the number of oldest old, will exacerbate the problems that will come from the loss of valuable skilled workers to retirement. The only positive in all this is that the parents of the boomers are living longeron the other side is the fact that they are not always living better.
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