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...models for the sprouting life-care communities is Mount San Antonio Gardens in Pomona, Calif., a successful independent operation. Retirees, who must be healthy when they move in, pay entry fees that range from $28,300 for accommodations in a studio apartment to as much as $100,000 for the extra comfort of living in a two-bedroom house. Each of the 458 retirees pays a monthly service fee of $892. In return, members receive everything from meals and utilities to housecleaning and the use of a swimming pool and a weight room. But the real benefit is unlimited access...
That can translate into substantial savings in the event of long-term illness. The average monthly charge at a traditional nursing home is more than $1,800. But the cost of living at San Antonio Gardens, when all fees are prorated over the typical life expectancy, averages just $1,100 a month. The company is able to charge such comparatively reasonable rates because about 70% of the residents die before they need full-time nursing care. San Antonio maintains a $900,000 investment fund to cover cases in which residents outlive their savings...
...offers have been spurned by the National Democratic Front, the Communist-dominated alliance that bargains on behalf of the insurgents. The peace bids, scoffs N.D.F. Negotiator Antonio Zumel, are part of the Aquino administration's "soft tactics to countervail its naked sword of war. It is a sheer farce." Says Vicvic Justiniani, the national spokeswoman for MAKIBAKA, a women's organization that is part of the N.D.F.: "Our view of what constitutes peace is not the same as Cory's. Peace can only come with social justice. So it is a question of whose ideas prevail, ours or hers...
...Stevens, Mary Themo Photographers: Eddie Adams, Terry Ashe, William Campbell, Sahm Doherty, Michael Evans, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Ben Martin, Harry Mattison, Mark Meyer, Ralph Morse, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Stephen Northup, Bill Pierce, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
...Stevens, Mary Themo Photographers: Eddie Adams, Terry Ashe, William Campbell, Sahm Doherty, Michael Evans, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Ben Martin, Harry Mattison, Mark Meyer, Ralph Morse, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Stephen Northup, Bill Pierce, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...