As New York City’s population fluctuates, one demographic remains a steadfast part of the city’s future: adults aged 60 and older. In Queens, our older adult population has grown significantly and become much more diverse over the past decade.
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Selfhelp Community Services hosted its annual gala at Pier 60 last week, raising more than $1.4 million for services benefitting the lives of Holocaust survivors, homebound older adults, affordable housing for formerly homeless older adults and services for vulnerable New Yorkers. More than 500 supporters attended, including Congress Member Jerry Nadler, Marilu Galvez of ABC7, acting commissioner Ahmed Tigani of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Commissioner Molly Wasow Park of the Department of Social Services, among others.
Selfhelp Community Services Applauds New York City Mayor’s Executive Order and Legislative Proposal to Address Startling Rise of Antisemitism
Selfhelp Community Services CEO Stuart C. Kaplan issued the following statement, applauding New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s Executive Order directing city agencies to utilize the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism.
Selfhelp Community Services Responds to Governor Hochul’s Master Plan for Aging, Calling it “A Major Step Forward”
Selfhelp Community Services Chief Executive Officer Stuart C. Kaplan issued the following statement today about Governor Hochul’s Master Plan for Aging, which is designed to ensure that older adults and individuals of all ages can live healthy, fulfilling lives while aging with dignity and independence:
A plan for the aging
Gov. Hochul’s final Master Plan for Aging marks a major step forward for New York State and demonstrates true national leadership. As one of only a handful of states to undertake such a comprehensive analysis, New York is taking a holistic approach to the needs of its rapidly growing older adult population.
Selfhelp: Caring for New York’s seniors for nearly 90 years
Every Monday in the gym at the Selfhelp Community Services Latimer Gardens Older Adult Center in Flushing, visitors can witness the sights and sounds of traditional Chinese waist drum dancing.
City Watch with Ahmed Tigani, Stuart Kaplan
Learning Circles for Older Adults to Promote Emotional Wellbeing
Readers sound off on the Pentagon press corps, the mayoral race and nuclear power
Opelika, Ala.: The Daily News accurately described Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as unfit and unqualified. However, Hegseth possesses in abundance what’s imperative to President Trump: Co-sign everything I say and do. Way back in 2018, Trump derided the press as enemies of the people. Therefore, Hegseth, as Trump’s extension, ostensibly created a policy to coerce the Pentagon press corps to abandon their First Amendment right to report the truth and not regurgitate government-concocted lies — what Hegseth euphemistically described as “explicitly authorized” information.
Selfhelp Virtual 5K
Selfhelp Community Services will host its 10th annual Virtual 5K Run/Walk starting Saturday through November 2 to raise funds for its Holocaust Survivor Program, the oldest and largest program serving survivors in North America. The virtual event will support Selfhelp’s housing, home health care, and social service programming to support 12,500 Holocaust survivors in New York City.
