Read more at SFGateOne neighborhood. Two institutions, both serving seniors, one representing the past, the other signaling the future. At the Bayview Hunters Point Adult Day Health Center, the mostly African American clientele talks about coming to San Francisco from the South, how the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard attracted many to the area, and the history of the neighborhood. The center, established in 1974, has a reputation as a caring place where seniors, many of them poor and some without families, come for companionship, activities, meals and medical care. Along with the other adult centers in the state, it was informed it would no longer receive state funding because of the budget crisis and would have to close its doors July 1. The centers have since won a reprieve until Sept. 1, and a lawsuit has been filed claiming the closures represent a violation of federal disability protections.
Video at http://sfg.ly/re3nvh
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