AHEPA Senior Living personifies hellenic ideals

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AHEPA Senior Living personifies hellenic ideals
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• At AHEPA Senior Living, we strive to be pillars
  of our communities, inspired by the ethos of our
  Greek American founders of civic responsibility,
  humanitarianism, and philanthropy. Led by the
  desire to leave our communities better than we
  found them, we hope our team of professionals
  embodies these Hellenic ideals and that these
  ideals carry over to residents. This
  personification of ideals is what we saw this
  holiday season at several of our communities.
• A community inspired to give back
• In Daytona Beach, Florida, at our AHEPA 410
  Senior Apartments community, residents recently
  asked the management team about donating toys to
  children through a Toys for Tots drive hosted by
  the Daytona Beach Fire Department. While the
  request seemed normal to Julie Carpenter, the
  AHEPA 410 Senior Apartments property manager, the
  participation caught her a bit by surprise.

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• We collected 64 new unwrapped toys that we
  dropped off to the Daytona Beach Fire
  Department, said Carpenter. Many of our
  residents were eager to participate. For them,
  the thought of putting smiles on childrens faces
  was very gratifying. Several took pictures of the
  gifts under the tree to share with their loved
  ones.
• We also saw a similar toy drive carried out by
  residents at Penelope 54 Senior Apartments in
  Houston for a collection organized by the Houston
  Police Department.
• However, the exciting part of the story is how
  these holiday toy drives that link generations
  seem to reflect a growing trend in the United
  Statesa rise in multigenerational housing. These
  households cite several benefits of living
  together, including strengthened relationships
  among family members, more accessible family
  care, improved finances, and positive impacts on
  personal mental health. Perhaps the alignment of
  the holiday spirit or simply the desire to care
  for others ties these two concepts together.

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• The steady rise of multigenerational households
• The COVID-19 pandemic and the opioid crisis are
  recent contributing factors for the rise in
  children in high poverty or rural areas living
  with their grandparents. A June 2022 report
  issued by a congressional committee responsible
  for appropriating funding for affordable elderly
  housing cited these factors. However, according
  to research from the Pew Research Center, there
  has been a steady rise in multigenerational
  housing since the 1970s, with a rate of 18 in
  2021. All told, 23 of grandparents support
  grandchildren, according to a stat provided by
  the ranking member of the Senate Committee on
  Aging, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), at a December
  2022 hearing.
• While there are currently no AHEPA Senior Living
  facilities that provide multigenerational
  housing, the trend is gaining attention. It has
  the interest of the Senate Committee on Aging.

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• In 2019, the then-heads of the committee,
  Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Bob Casey
  (D-PA), proposed a bill to reauthorize the Older
  Americans Act to allow further funding to
  multigenerational families. Today, we are
  starting to see Congress appropriate funding to
  expand the supply of affordable intergenerational
  units25 million in the latest funding bill.
• Regardless of whether we can be involved
  directly, our ethos aligns with those ideals
  being lived by intergenerational housing. At the
  core, we want to ensure that seniors and our
  communities are served and thriving. So, we want
  to thank again the residents in Daytona Beach and
  Houston who took it upon themselves to help make
  the holidays brighter for the underserved
  children in their communities.

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