Best Place for Seniors to Live in Ventura California: Silvercrest Residence

Today, 80 percent of middle-aged couples have at least one living parent. As, many learn to adjust to reversing roles of child and parent, they confront demands of caring for those who once took care of them.

Daughters usually assume the responsibilities for parent care-giving, adding to already full jobs, at home, at the office, or both. Elder care has become a top problem in our society today, as it replaces child care as the number one issue for men and women, in today’s work force. People are spending more time caring for, or providing for, the care of their elderly parents than ever for caring for their own children. The problem will only magnify with the aging of the population. This is especially true, when we take into consideration, the "baby boomers" born between 1946 and 1964, and the children of that population explosion turning 60, in the year 2006!

In 1976, I was trained as a U.S. Army Combat Medic and Neuropsych Tech. I was in the top 5% of my class in Corpsman school, and 2nd in Neuropsychiatric Technician Class, at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas. Later, I was the 2nd female, in Ventura County, to be licensed to work in ambulances; before there were women on fire engines and very few female officers on the Ventura Police Force. I am no expert, but I have a working knowledge of the care, stabilization or transportation of sick, injured or debilitated persons. Having shared that, I would like to share one of Ventura County's best kept secrets...

I found the Salvation Army operates facilities called Silvercrest Residences in many cities through out the United States. The Salvation Army says they are, "... moderate cost, older adult residences, which provide clean, safe and comfortable housing, and are "sensitive and responsive" to the needs of individual residents. Subsidies are available at most facilities to low income residents who qualify."