Daily News | Im Ja Choi, Asian American advocate and founder of Penn Asian Senior Services, has died at 73
“to support the well-being of Asian American seniors who are disadvantaged by language and cultural barriers.”
She was spurred to action in 2002 when she was unable to find a Korean-speaking home health-care aide to assist her ailing mother, Boonam Park, who did not speak English or eat American food. “I could not send her to a nursing home,” Ms. ChoiIt took Ms. Choi eight months to find a home aide who spoke Korean and could relate to her mother.
She also opened an adult day-care center for immigrants with language and cultural barriers, a state-licensed vocational school for entry-level Asian health-care workers, and a seniors community center, all in East Oak Lane where Penn Asian Senior Services is based. “Who wants to stay at home? No one,” Ms. Choi told the Daily News when the adult day-care center opened in 2014.. “When you have a dream, you somehow make it come true. Now I feel like I am doing the things that I want to do.”Ms.
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