In following the traditions established in 1912, the Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging continues to provide a home for many who have nowhere else to go during the most vulnerable years of their lives. The Jewish Home believes that caring for our community's elderly is nothing less than a sacred trust, and so the care we provide must go far beyond the basics of safety, food and shelter. Here, we provide mental, emotional and spiritual sustenance as well, believing that days filled with companionship, joy and purpose are both life enhancing and life-extending. In fact, the average age of our residents is 90 -- six years older than at comparable facilities. And the average stay at the Jewish Home is seven years, nearly three years longer than the average spent at most elder care facilities.

The Jewish Home believes our residents to be part of our extended family, and we care for them as we would our own parents and grandparents. The Jewish Home does not discriminate. It is our policy to be open to all who are in need to our services.

Each year, nearly 1000 elderly women and men call this place "home," and is the largest continuing residential care facility for the elderly in the western United States. The Home's commitment to excellence is so well-recognized that many of our model programs have been replicated by scores of other facilities throughout the United States. We have advised health care professionals from as far away as Japan, India and Great Britain as they strive to improve elder care practices in their home countries.

For more information about the Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging, please contact us at 818.774-3306.

The first residents of the "Hebrew Sheltering Home" were three men who had been living in less than desirable conditions in a County Home. They found a new home, full of warmth and Jewish tradition. Simon Lewis, one of the founders of the Home wrote an in-depth, personal account of the Home's early days. According to Lewis' account of the 1912 Seder, "…three inmates of the County Farm, all old men, Mr. Abraham Levy, Mr. Friedman and Mr. Jacoby, appeared before us….Mr. Levy said to me 'Do not cast me away, back to the County Farm."

In the years that followed, grounds were purchased in Boyle Heights where the number of residents served grew to about 350 and became known as the Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aged. In 1962, the Boyle Heights Home began its exodus to the San Fernando Valley. In Reseda, the Industrial Center for the Aged, which operated as a kibbutz-style settlement for unemployed during the Great Depression, converted to help elderly Jews of Southern California who could no longer care for themselves and became known as Menorah Village.

The Jewish Home continued to expand in response to the needs of a growing, elderly population. In 1974, the residents and staff of Boyle Heights' Jewish Home for the Aged were moved to a newer facility, also in Reseda, known as Victory Village. In 1979, Menorah Village merged with the Jewish Home for the Aged, and the two facilities became know as the Jewish Homes for the Aging of Greater Los Angeles - caring for nearly 900 residents each year.

In 1983, the name of the Menorah Village campus was changed one last time to Grancell Village, to honor the Grancell family for their commitment to the Home. In 1990, Eisenberg Village became the name of the former Victory Village campus to recognize the decades of dedication and hard work of Ben B. and Joyce E. Eisenberg. The Jewish Homes themselves became further unified in name and spirit as the Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging.

Although the Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging has been known by several names during the course of its history, one thing has not changed: the ongoing devotion to the Los Angeles community to maintain a very special place where elderly people can be cared for - where they can truly feel at "home."