Older Americans Month
Second Westfield Senior Citizens Housing Corporation
The Creative Hands of Second Westfield Senior Citizens Housing are a group of residents who are busy with their knitting and crocheting for any need in the surrounding community. They’ve recently donated lap blankets and shawls to RWJ in Rahway. Donna Mancuso, who is the Director of Marketing and Community Education at RWJ, said, “These knitted items will be very helpful in keeping our patients warm during chemo therapy treatments.” Hats and scarves were also donated to Raphael Life House in Elizabeth benefitting the young mothers residing there. Miss Mauryn Austin, who is the Resident Advisor at the Raphael Life House, said, “Our moms and babies send our greatest appreciation for the beautiful hats & blankets. Thank you for thinking of us.”
With May 2022 being Older Americans Month with the theme “Age My Way,” these older Americans remain active not only in this group but in many programs and activities in their building. Many of these ladies will join their neighbors in participating in Bocce, exercise classes, attending documentaries, lectures and live music performances in their building. Their curiosity with the world around them, and their determination to enjoy life is contagious. Second Westfield recognizes that need and provides these seniors with every program possible not only on this Older Americans Month of May but in every month of the year.
RWJ Rahway: Founded in 1917, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway is an acute-care community hospital whose campus includes comprehensive rehabilitation services, a subacute rehabilitation unit, sleep center, wound care and hyperbaric medicine. Its campus is home to Kindred Hospital-New Jersey, a long-term acute care hospital. RWJ Rahway is part of the RWJ Barnabas Health System.
Raphael’s Life House is Covenant House New Jersey’s Mother and Child program, created to help homeless and pregnant young women secure a brighter, more stable future for themselves and their newborn babies.
Second Westfield Senior Citizens Housing, 1129 Boynton Avenue in Westfield, NJ opened in October, 1995. The building is a three-storied, elevator equipped building for low-income senior citizens. It is designed specifically for seniors, and meets all of the Americans with Disabilities Act requirements.
