![]() Rosen’s organization delivers more than 100,000 kosher meals annually to 665 homebound seniors, and is ensuring that they have three days worth of food, water and medication. Residents load sheets of strand board on a truck as they prepare for Hurricane Irma, September 5, 2017, in Hialeah, Florida. They might be living near the beach in things that are 40 years old, and a lot of people don’t want to leave.” “A lot of our seniors are in old condominiums. “We’ve already been getting calls from people who are scared,” said Barbara Bailin, director of financial services for Goodman Jewish Family Services of Broward County on Florida’s east coast. With thousands of local seniors in their areas, Jewish communal agencies are gearing up to prepare the elderly for Irma, which officials say could be one of the worst hurricanes in decades. Long a mecca for Jewish retirees, South Florida has a disproportionate number of Jewish elderly. But as a Jewish senior in Florida, she is far from alone. Marks, who has lived in Florida for more than 70 years, is an outlier among octogenarians - living alone and driving, with barely any assistance in everyday activities. ![]() But it’s a thing we know that can come and go.” “As far as the actual fear of the hurricane, we all are afraid. Not anymore,” said Marks, 86, whose community of seniors lies in the path of Hurricane Irma, which is set to make landfall in Florida at the end of the week. JTA - Beatrice Marks’ one-story home might flood this week.
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