Word: alfa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assisted-living movement has really changed the way people age," says Karen Wayne, president of the Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA), an industry trade group. "We've proved that people don't want to be in institutional settings." The facility provides each resident with a room or suite; meals, usually in a common dining room; and round-the-clock staff members who help with the no-big-deal chores of the day that can still defeat the mostly capable elderly--bathing, dressing, taking medication. Assisted living gives the elderly some measure of independence, a chance to socialize and needed...
...people that assisted living caters to are usually able to get out of bed and walk around. But their average age, estimated by ALFA, is 83, so they can also be frail. Almost half have Alzheimer's or some degree of cognitive impairment. (Alzheimer's patients tend to have their own, more closely supervised areas.) John Knox Village, in Pompano Beach, Fla., is a not-for-profit continuing-care operation on a landscaped campus with meandering walks and duck ponds. In an arrangement typical of such places, the elderly buy a residence--studio apartments are $48,500; two-bedroom "villas...
...overtones of toxic waste, falls from tanks hidden in the ceilings. The artist's recorded voice whispers Lincoln's second Inaugural Address, with its moving call for healing during the savagery of the Civil War, but it too is interpreted, spelled out in the phonetic alphabet used by pilots (Alfa for a, Bravo for b), making it nearly impossible to fathom...
...MAGLIOZZI, hosts of Car Talk on National Public Radio: We'd vote to bring back the Peugeot. Because we love it? Non, non, non! Since it has been pulled out of the U.S. market--along with the Renault, the Fiat, the Alfa Romeo and the Yugo--there's just no one left to really make fun of on our show... [T]he arrogance of the French makes them such a delightful target...
DIED. NUCCIO BERTONE, 82, Italian car designer whose exotic models for Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and Lamborghini seduced auto aficionados; in Turin...