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Massachusetts Landlord Does Not Deny Endangering Senior Tenants & Violating Disability Rights

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Winncompanies Property Manager Kayla Bennett in Ludlow, Massachusetts and her surrounding management team do not deny Winn’s parking-lot policies endanger the lives of tenants and violates the rights of seniors with disabilities with legally issued handicap parking placard or plate. Bennett oversees 170 apartments for seniors.


Asked Friday by this tenant what gave Winn the legal right to take away legal handicap parking privileges, Bennett said, “I will not answer your question.”


When asked why Winn endangers the lives of tenants by forcing them to move their cars in snowy icy weather, Bennett gave the same answer. “I will not answer your question.”

Bennett then asked me to leave the office.

Bennett is not the only member of Winn management not to answer the question regarding the violation of seniors rights and the rights of people with disabilities. Others include, Leanne Chalifoux, Caitlin A. Laplante, Erik Pietz, none, including Bennett have answered emails asking them the same questions.

As detailed by the NIH’s National Institute for Aging. To get a disability plate or placard, one or more of the following apply to you.

You:
•   Cannot walk 200 feet without stopping to rest.
•   Cannot walk without the assistance of another person, prosthetic aid, or other assistive device.
•   Are restricted by lung disease.
•   Use portable oxygen.
•   Have a Class III cardiac condition.
•   Have a Class IV cardiac condition. according to the standards set by the
•   Have Class III or Class IV functional arthritis. according to the standards set by the American College of Rheumatology
•   Have Stage III or Stage IV anatomic arthritis. according to the standards set by the American College of Rheumatology
•   Have been declared legally blind.
•   Have lost one or more limbs.

A Place For Mom? (What about Dad?!)

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Every once in a while a commercial makes me want to yell and break things. Growl. Emit mighty harrumphs into the air.

I do throw a fit when I see A Place for Mom commercials with Joan Lunden (a fine person by any measure).

(What about Dad?! Who finds a place for Dad?!)

With its U.S. Headquarters in Seattle, Washington, A Place for Mom is essentially “400 Senior Living Advisors across the U.S. and Canada” who help you “transition [someone] into senior living,” according to the company’s website.

It may be the best darn company of its kind on planet earth, for all I know.

(I cannot comment on whether the company has expanded to extraterrestrial locations.)

The thing is, I don’t like the company name. Not at all.

Choosing to transition into senior living doesn’t transform an individual into a puddle of helpless flesh and bones. The last thing anyone needs to encounter at a time like that in life is condescension, intentional or not.

And, there’s something else. Best as I can tell, there’s no actual senior living community operated by A Place for Mom. And that’s not fair to Mom. (Or Dad!)