Success Stories - Proven Results

MTSFS programs are proven and award-winning:

• “The two earliest sites providing More Than Shelter For Seniors® services as contrasted to the Non-MTSFS sites indicated that MTSFS had more respondents reporting improved health during the past year, as contrasted to Non-MTSFS sites, where more respondents reported worsening health during the past twelve months.” From the study, Lifestyles of Low-Income Seniors Living in Independent Senior Housing completed by the Departments of Gerontology and Planning, Policy and Development at the University of Southern California, 2001

• MTSFS won the 2003 SAGE Award for Program of the Year from the Seniors Housing Council of the Building Industry Association.

“I have been examining some of the residents at Pacific Villas for the past two months. They have started a program for healthy residents to check on their more frail neighbors. The program saved the life of Mrs. Evelyn Woods, who was found to have very low blood sugar and needed to be hospitalized immediately.”
          Dee Beng Lim, M.D.
          Emmanuel Medical Providers, Upland

“A resident that moved in at our property suffered from severe depression. She lost her daughter to suicide the same month her mother died. We had a crochet class through MTSFS and she joined, not even really knowing why. We started donating the squares that the class crochets to “Warm Up America,” who make blankets for the homeless. This resident has made countless squares for donation, feeling like helping others has helped her focus on someone else besides herself.”           Barbara Garcia           Property Manager, Anaheim.

“It's a great package of amenities many other so-called 'retirement' communities just can't match - it costs residents nothing to participate, yet it can make an enormous difference in the quality of life we, as a developer, want to provide them.”           Scott Darrell           LINC Housing, Long Beach.

“I had an accident last June that left me with limited movement. I have been doing the MTSFS Chair Exercise program each week and on my last visit to the doctor, he said that this exercise program has made the difference in the healing process. I feel that this program is so important to the residents of this complex!”
          Edna Boulton
          Resident, Pacific Villas, Pomona

“Before they started the Creative Writing and Storytelling classes at Villa Azusa, I had been depressed to the point of being suicidal. I didn't feel I even had a reason to get out of bed in the morning. With writing class, I have a purpose. I'm able to laugh more now and I feel respected because not only does somebody think I have a brain, they make me use it”
          Lucy
          Resident, Villa Azusa

“I competed in the MTSFS Senior Olympics this year. I've never competed in anything before. And guess what. Next year, I'm going to win.”
          Delores
          Resident, Cedar Villas, Ontario

“Sitting in the wings waiting to go on, it was hard to believe that it had been only six weeks ago that our patient creative writing instructor guided us through the proper steps of penning a stage play. He would let us try anything, except quitting. There's Always Tomorrow was the result and now there were only three minutes until we went on stage to perform it. A man gently tapped his microphone three or four times and for the first time I realized how full the theater at the Duarte Community Center had become. Our Stage Director was tremendously professional, her training and talent evident in every example she set forth for us. And she was very patient with her fledgling cast. The lights dimmed. We started up the three steps to the stage. The three minutes were up. Show time.”
          Excerpt from article written for The SAGE by:
          Thyda Dix
          Resident, Pacific Villas, Pomona