Alzheimer’s care
Raya’s Paradise operates several boarding homes that care for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other ailments of old age. But when they wanted to build a facility in a Hollywood neighborhood, homeowners balked. At one of Raya’s existing facilities in West Hollywood, Hasmik Nazaryan embraces patient Evelyn Labonte, as Elise Christoffersen looks on at left. They were celebrating the birthday of a fellow resident.
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Nurse Goar Saakyan and Evelyn Labonte dance during a birthday party for a care home resident. Pearl Cummings, foreground, listens to an accordion player.
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With one arm around Evelyn Labonte, entertainer Shlomo Rabinowitz belts out a tune during a birthday party at a care facility as Frances D. Holridge watches.
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Nurse Hasmik Nazaryan holds Ester Salters’ hand as she blows out the candles on her birthday cake, as Evelyn Labonte, left, helps out in the festivities. Salters was celebrating her 91st birthday.
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Pearl Cummings, 88, hangs out in the living room of a West Hollywood care home.
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Evelyn Labonte reads a magazine after a birthday party for a fellow resident at a West Hollywood care home.
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