Old-Age Wisdom

The state told Virginia Fraser to shut up, but she won't give up on the elderly.

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Making the rounds, Fraser walked through Cherrelyn's dining room. She noted approvingly that the nursing aides were chatting with several disabled people as they helped them eat lunch.

"It's important to see how people are being tended to when they're eating," says Fraser. "Are they just shoving food in people's mouths, or are they talking to them as they feed them?"

Anthony Camera

Virginia Fraser recently resigned her position as director of the state ombudsman's office after twenty years.

Anthony Camera

Senator Sue Windels of Arvada was willing to take on Meridian in the legislature.

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Fraser likes Cherrelyn's current administrator and clearly feels the staff is doing a good job. She's been around long enough to remember years when things weren't going so well at Cherrelyn. "At one time we had a lot of problems here," she says.

Eventually, Fraser plans to try and talk with every person who lives at the home.

"I'm going to try to go there once a week," she says. "I hope to visit with every new resident as they come in. It's a way of getting back in touch with what the local ombudsmen are doing."